Albert Van Vlierberghe (18 March 1942 – 20 December 1991) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Van Vlierberghe won three stages in the Tour de France, and three stages in the Giro d'Italia. He also competed in the team time trial and the team pursuit events at the 1964 Summer Olympics. In his 1999 book, Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling, the True Story, Belgian sports physiotherapist Willy Voet described an incident involving Van Vlierberghe that occurred during the 1979 Deutschland Tour. Voet, then the soigneur with Van Vlierberghe's team, Flandria, claims that Van Vlierberghe, \"a decent Belgian racer but with no taste for the hills,\" asked Voet to drive him ahead of his fellow racers to avoid a six-mile stretch of hill in the course. Voet claims that Van Vlierberghe slipped back into the race without being detected and went on to place sixth on the stage. Voet used the incident to defend his assertion that for many professional riders at the time, cheating was \"a way of life.\"


Cyrus Rustom Todiwala OBE, DL, (born 16 October 1956), is chef proprietor of Café Spice Namasté and a celebrity television chef. He trained at the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces chain in India, and rose to become executive chef for eleven restaurants within those hotels. He moved to the UK in 1991 with his family, and after some initial financial difficulties after taking over a restaurant, Michael Gottlieb invested allowing Todiwala to open Café Spice Namasté in 1995, for which he is best known. He has subsequently launched a range of condiments and sauces called Mr Todiwala's, and a second restaurant called Mr Todiwala's Kitchen, which is located at Heathrow Airport. He was awarded an MBE in 2000, and an OBE in 2009. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate and been made an honorary professor. In 2012, he cooked for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. He has appeared on multiple television and radio shows.


Nikólaos Tselementés (1878 – 2 March 1958) was a Greek chef of the early 20th century. He is considered one of the most influential cookery writers of modern Greece. He was born in Exampela, a village on the island of Sifnos and grew up in Athens, where he finished High School. At first, he worked as a notary clerk, then he started cooking, working at his father's and uncle's restaurant. He studied cooking for a year in Vienna and, on his return to Greece worked for various embassies. He became initially known with the magazine Cooking Guide (Odigos Mageirikis) that he began publishing in 1910, which included – in addition to recipes – nutritional advice, international cuisine, cooking news, etc. In 1919, he became manager of hotel \"Hermes\", while the next year he left for America, where he worked in some of the more expensive restaurants of the world, while also following higher studies in cooking, confectionery and dietetics. In 1920, he published the influential cookbook, Cooking and Patisserie Guide. He returned to Greece in 1932, founded a small cooking and confectionery school and brought out his well known book of recipes, which, being the first complete cookbook in Greek, had over fifteen official reprints during the following decades. In 1950, he published his only book in English, Greek Cookery. Influenced by French cuisine, he had been the moderniser of Greek cuisine, as, thanks to him the Greek housewives learned of Béchamel sauce, Pirozhki and Bouillabaisse. This, according to some, was equal to bastardization of the Greek cuisine with European elements. His name (Tselementés) is today in Greece a synonym of \"cookbook\", and is also used in jest about someone who can cook very well.


Yolande Speedy (born December 30, 1976 in Johannesburg) is a South African professional mountain biker. She has claimed two gold medals in the women's elite cross-country race at the African Mountain Bike Championships (2007 and 2013), and also represented her nation South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In 2007 Speedy competed in the Absa Cape Epic Mixed Category with team mate Paul Cordes, winning the category. She claimed 1st place again in 2013, this time in the Women's Category with team mate Catherine Williamson. Throughout her sporting career, Speedy has been training as an amateur rider for the IMC Racing Activeworx Mountain Biking Team, until she turned professional in 2010 and thereby raced for more than three seasons on Team Dimension Data. Speedy qualified for the South African squad, as a lone female rider, in the women's cross-country race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by finishing first and receiving an automatic berth from the UCI African Championships and by recording dominant triumphs in the final stage of the Mazda MTN National Cross-Country Series in Nelspruit. With only two laps left to complete the race, Speedy suffered from a heat-related fatigue, and instead decided to pull off directly from the course, finishing only in twenty-second place.


Enrico Bertaggia (born September 19, 1964 in Noale, Venice) is a former racing driver from Italy. He enjoyed success in Formula Three, winning the Italian Formula Three title in 1987 and the Monaco Grand Prix F3 support race and the Macau Grand Prix the following year. He also made his debut in Formula 3000 in 1988, however his results weren't impressive. In European F3000 he entered four races, failed to qualify in the first three and then managed a \"career-best\" 19th position at Jerez. In 1989 he bought a Formula One ride with Coloni, replacing Pierre-Henri Raphanel. He participated in six races towards the end of the season and was in fact the slowest entrant in all six. He was entered for two Grand Prix with Andrea Moda in 1992, but the team was excluded from the first, and withdrew from the second, following which, Bertaggia left the team. He made an attempt to return to Andrea Moda with a new sponsorship deal, but owner Andrea Sassetti had already used up his allowed number of driver changes. In 2011, Bertaggia as part owner, opened Dream Racing in Las Vegas, an exotic racing experience based within the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.


David Randolph \"Dave\" Scott (born June 6, 1932), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut. He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963. As an astronaut, Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Scott graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the United States Air Force. He graduated from the Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School (Class of 1963) and Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class of 1964). Scott retired from the Air Force in 1975 with the rank of colonel, and more than 5,600 hours of logged flying time. As an astronaut, Scott made his first flight into space as pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, along with Neil Armstrong, in March 1966, spending just under eleven hours in low Earth orbit. Scott then spent ten days in orbit as Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 9, his second spaceflight, along with Commander James McDivitt and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. During this mission, Scott became the last American to fly solo in Earth orbit (not counting subsequent untethered EVAs). Scott made his third and final flight into space as commander of the Apollo 15 mission, the fourth human lunar landing, becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon and the first person to drive on the Moon.


Joseph Calhoun (October 22, 1750 – April 14, 1817) was a Republican member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1804–1805) and represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives (1807–1811). Born in Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, he moved with his father to South Carolina in 1756 and settled in Granville District, on Little River, near the present town of Abbeville. Received a limited education and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1804 and 1805 and was a colonel of the state militia. In 1807 he was elected as a Republican to the 10th United States Congress to fill the vacancy for the 6th congressional district caused by the death of Levi Casey and was sworn in on June 2, 1807. He was re-elected to the 11th Congress and served until March 3, 1811. He declined to be a candidate for re-election in 1810 and was succeeded by his first cousin John C. Calhoun. He was also a cousin of both John C. Calhoun's wife, Floride and father-in-law, John E. Colhoun. Calhoun returned to his agricultural pursuits and engaged in milling. He died in Calhoun Mills, Abbeville District (now Mount Carmel, South Carolina), and was buried there in the family cemetery.


Elseid Gëzim Hysaj (born 2 February 1994) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Italian club Napoli and the Albania national team. Being born in the year 1994 he is also still eligible to represent the under-21 at the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He is an attack minded full back whose natural position is at right back, but is also comfortable playing at left back. He is an attacking fullback who is good at tracking back when faced with being caught out of position, as well as possessing good vision in order to pick out crosses as well as long range passes. Hysaj was born in Albania and started youth career with KF Shkodra, a local team of Shkodër city, but joined his father in Italy at the age of 14, where he joined Empoli's youth setup in 2009, before going on to make his debut for the club in 2011 in the Coppa Italia. He made his league debut the following season in Serie B, and he quickly became the club's starting right back under the guidance of head coach Maurizio Sarri, making 34 league appearances during the 2012–13 campaign before going on to secure promotion with Empoli the following season. During his debut season in Serie A he had an impressive campaign, where he featured in 36 league games as his side comfortably avoided relegation. At the end of the season Sarri left as head coach and joined Napoli, where Hysaj soon followed in a €6million move, making it the second most expensive move involving an Albanian international behind of Lorik Cana which currently holds the record with a €6,75 million move from Galatasaray to Lazio in July 2011.


Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Suckow(1770, Heidelberg – 21 June 1838, Mannheim) was a German physician and naturalist. Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Suckow studied at the University of Heidelberg graduating in 1813 with a thesis entitled \"Myologia insectorum …\" . His father was Georg Adolf Suckow. Suckow was Professor of Nature research (Naturwissenschaften) and curator of the Natural History Museum in Mannheim. He wrote \n* (1813): Myologiae Insectorum specimen de Astaco fluviatili cum aliis anatomicis disquisitionibus. Inauguraldissertation.  \n* (1818): Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen der Insecten und Krustenthiere. 70 S. mit 11 Kupfern. Engelmann, Heidelberg.  \n* (1819): Naturgeschichte der Insekten. 262 S. mit drei Kupfern. Engelmann, Heidelberg.  \n* (1822): Flora Mannhemiensis et vicinarum regionum cis- et transrhenanarum. Manhemium  \n* (1824): Concrementa calculosa im Darmcanale der Wirbelthiere. Bad. Annalen der Heilk. II.  \n* (1824): Naturgeschichte des Maykäfers (Melolontha vulgaris Fabr.). 36 S. mit 3 lithograph. Tafeln. Verhandlungen des Grossherzoglich Badischen Landwirthschaftlichen Vereins Carlsruhe.  \n* (1827): Ueber den Winterschlaf der Insecten. Heusinger’s Zeitschrift f. organ. Physik I.  \n* (1828): Ueber die Respiration der Insecten, insbesondere über die Darmrespiration der Aeschna grandis. Heusinger’s Zeitschrift f. organ. Physik II  \n* Ueber die Verdauungsorgane der Insecten. Heusinger’s Zeitschrift f. organ. Physik III  \n* (1837): Osteologische Beschreibung des Wals ; Mit fünf lithograph. Tafeln in Querfolio. Mannheim  \n* (1830): Vademecum für Naturaliensammler oder vollständiger Unterricht Säugethiere, Vögel, Amphibien, Fische, Käfer, Schmetterlinge, Würmer, Pflanzen, Mineralien, Petrefacte etc. zu sammeln, zu conserviren und zu versenden. 189 S. Neff, Stuttgart.  \n* (ca. 1830): Osteologische Beschreibung des Delphin-Schädels, verglichen mit dem Schädel des Walls. 12 S. Löffler, Mannheim  \n* (1832): Das Naturalien-Cabinet : oder gründliche Anweisung, wie der Naturfreund bei naturhistorischen Excursionen und bei dem Sammeln, Ausstopfen, Skeletiren ... der Naturkörper jeder Art, namentlich der Säugethiere, Vögel, Fische, Reptilien, Käfer, Schmetterlinge, Pflanzen, Mineralien, Petrefacte u.s.w. verfährt, wie er sie versenden und in Sammlungen dauernd schön conserviren kann ; Nebst lithogr. Abb. der, beim Naturaliensammeln erforderlichen Werkzeuge 189 S. Neff, Stuttgart.The standard author abbreviation F.W.L.Suckow is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.


Karl Gordon Henize, Ph.D. (17 October 1926 – 5 October 1993) was an American astronomer, space scientist, NASA astronaut, and professor at Northwestern University. He was stationed at several observatories around the world, including McCormick Observatory, Lamont-Hussey Observatory (South Africa), Mount Wilson Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Mount Stromlo Observatory (Australia). He was in the Astronaut Support Crew for Apollo 15 and Skylab 2, 3 and 4. As a Mission Specialist on the Spacelab-2 mission (STS-51-F), he flew on Space Shuttle Challenger in July/August 1985. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1974. He died in 1993, during a Mount Everest expedition. The purpose of this expedition was to test for NASA a meter called a Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC): testing at different altitudes (17,000 ft, 19,000 ft and 21,000 ft) would reveal how people’s bodies would be affected, including the way bodily tissues behaved, when struck by radiation, and this was important for the planning of long duration space missions. Having reached Advanced Base Camp at 21,300 feet (6,500 m), the expedition was cut short when Henize died from high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) on October 5, 1993.


Peter Atkinson (baptised 1780 - 1843) was an English architect. Atkinson was educated in his profession by his father, Peter Atkinson (1735–1805). In 1801, he became his father's partner, and after his father died, he took over the business in 1805 and Matthew Phillips (c1781-1825) became his partner until 1819. A former pupil, Richard Hey Sharp, (1793-1853) succeeded Phillips until 1827, after which Atkinson's sons, John Bownas Atkinson (1807-1874) and William Atkinson (1811-1886) assisted their father. Among Atkinson's surviving works are: \n*  Enlarged the Female Prison in York Castle by adding the end bays to match John Carr's Assize Courts, 1802 (the Female Prison is now part of York Castle Museum) \n*  Rectory at Middleton on the Wolds, Yorkshire, c.1810 \n*  Council Chamber at York Guildhall 1810-11 \n*  The new Ouse Bridge over the river Ouse, begun in 1810, finished in 1820. \n*  The new Foss Bridge, which joins the streets of Fossgate and Walmgate over the River Foss in the city of York, 1811-12 \n* Fishergate House, 1837, for Thomas Laycock, J.P. and his wife Elizabeth (not to be confused with the doctor Thomas Laycock, who lived in York at the same time For many years Atkinson had been a steward and surveyor to the corporation of York. He erected many churches in the service of the church commissioners. During the last years of his life he resided abroad.


Robert Wylie (1839 - February 4, 1877), American artist, was born in the Isle of Man and relocated with his parents to the United States as a child. Wylie studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, later serving a curator. In 1860, he helped found the Philadelphia Sketch Club, now one of the nation's oldest artists' clubs. His early work as a sculptor in Philadelphia is little known, with only a few works positively attributed to him. In 1863, the directors of the Pennsylvania Academy sent Wylie to France to study. He went to Pont-Aven, Brittany, in the early 1860s, where he remained until his death there in 1877. He painted Breton peasants and scenes in the history of Brittany; among his important works was a large canvas, \"The Death of a Vendean Chief,\" now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He won a medal of the second class at the Paris Salon of 1872.


Béla Síki (born February 21, 1923) is a Hungarian pianist. He was born in Hungary, where he was a student in Budapest of Leo Weiner and Ernest von Dohnányi at the Franz Liszt Music Academy. He moved to Switzerland in 1945, where he studied with Dinu Lipatti and won the 1948 Geneva Competition. His international solo career led him to perform on all five continents with distinguished conductors and orchestras. In 1965, he moved to the United States, teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle; between 1980 and 1985 he taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, moving back to Seattle in 1985, where he taught until his retirement in 2001. He has made several recordings. He is also a teacher, and is often asked to be on the jury of international musical competitions such as Leeds, Geneva, and Bolzano. His students include Kathryn Selby, Anton Nel and David Bollard.


Treat Conrad Huey (born 28 August 1985) is a Filipino-American tennis player who represents the Philippines in international competitions. He turned professional in 2008 and he started representing the Philippines in the Davis Cup and the Southeast Asian Games in 2009. Huey specializes in doubles and has reached fifteen finals on the ATP World Tour. He won titles at the 2012 Citi Open, 2013 Swiss Indoors, and 2014 Aegon International alongside Dominic Inglot, 2015 Estoril Open with Scott Lipsky, and 2015 St. Petersburg Open and 2015 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur with Henri Kontinen. Huey reached his career-high doubles ranking of World No. 18 in July 2016. Among his partners were Somdev Devvarman, Brian Battistone, Jeff Coetzee, Harsh Mankad, Jerzy Janowicz, Dominic Inglot, Jack Sock, Jonathan Erlich, Scott Lipsky and Henri Kontinen. As of 2016, his men's doubles partner is Max Mirnyi. On July 24, 2012, Huey became a member of the World Team Tennis' Washington Kastles due to the absence of Leander Paes (competing in the 2012 London Olympics). Huey also participated in the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL). Treat Huey participated as coach and player in the IPTL with the Philippine Mavericks as his team. He is the first Filipino player to reach the semifinals of the Wimbledon.


Harold Lowell Runnels (March 17, 1924 – August 5, 1980) was a U.S. Representative from New Mexico. Runnels attended Dallas public schools and Cameron State Agricultural College in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C. in 1942. From 1945 to 1951, Runnels was a manager for the Magnolia Amusement Co. in Magnolia, Arkansas. He moved to Lovington, New Mexico in 1951 and became a partner in Southland Supply Co., in 1952. In 1953 he formed Runnels Mud Co. and in 1964 RunCo Acidizing & Fracturing Co. In 1960, he was a founder of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association. He served as a member of the New Mexico Senate from 1960 to 1970, and served as delegate to New Mexico State Democratic conventions from 1960 to 1979. Runnels was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1971, until his death. He died in New York City on August 5, 1980 of respiratory failure while being treated for pleurisy and cancer. He was interred at Rest Haven Memorial Gardens in Lovington, New Mexico. His son, Mike Runnels, served as Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico from 1983 to 1987.


Marie-Françoise Bucquet (born October 28, 1937) is a French pianist. French pianist Marie-Françoise Bucquet began her studies at the Vienna Music Academy and continued this tradition by further studies with the pianist Wilhelm Kempff and later with Alfred Brendel. The influence of Edouard Steuermann and Max Deutsch, who were both pupils of Arnold Schönberg, and the French composer Pierre Boulez made her also a specialist in 20th-century music. Many contemporary composers, among them Jolas, Xenakis and Bussotti, composed works especially for her. Her concert tours as a soloist and with orchestra have brought her all over the world. For the Philips label she recorded works by, among others, Bizet, Bartók, Stockhausen and Stravinsky. In 1976 Marie-Françoise Bucquet was awarded an Edison for one of her Schönberg recordings. She has given master classes in Italy, Spain, the United States and Japan and, since 1988, at The International Holland Music Sessions. Since 1986 she has been professor of piano at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where she was appointed Head of the Pedagogical Department and member of the Board in 1991. Since 1979 Marie-Françoise Bucquet has formed a duo with her husband, baritone Jorge Chaminé. Their discography includes several award-winning recordings: Brahms Lieder (Lyrinx-Harmonia Mundi), Carlos Guastavino Songs (Movieplay Classics), Hebrew Songs (ADDA) and in 2002 a new release of a recording of Spanish Songs by De Falla, Turina and Nin for Lyrinx-Harmonia Mundi. With her husband she organizes each year an Atelier Musical in Paris in collaboration with the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian for special lessons in interpretation and performance. Marie-Françoise Bucquet has been a jury member at many international piano competitions, among them the International Piano Competition in Dublin.Since 1986 she teaches at Conservatoire de Paris.


Tihomil Drezga (Dresga, Drezza) (1903–1981) was a Croatian chess master. He was born in Šibenik, Croatia, and graduated from a gymnasium in Split. Then he studied international law at the Sorbonne in Paris and received a doctorate of law. In 1927/28, he won in the Lites Chess Club in Paris, followed by Josef Cukierman, Vitaly Halberstadt, Victor Kahn, etc.; won two games for French team in 2nd Chess Olympiad at The Hague 1928; tied for 6-7th in the 4th Paris City Chess Championship 1928 (Abraham Baratz won), and won, ahead of Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, in the 5th Paris-ch 1929. After spending some years in France, Dr Drezga returned to Croatia. He took 2nd at Zagreb 1934, took 9th at Maribor 1934 (Vasja Pirc and Lajos Steiner won), and took 2nd, behind Petar Trifunović, at Zagreb 1935. During World War II, he was a professor at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb from 1943 to 1945. After the war, he illegally emigrated to Italy in 1947, and then to the United States. He died in Erie, Pennsylvania.


Edmund Murton Walker (October 5, 1877 – February 14, 1969) was a Canadian entomologist. Born in Windsor, Ontario, Walker was the eldest son of Sir Byron Edmund Walker, after whom he was named. After studying in Toronto and Berlin, Walker joined the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto in 1904, rising to become the head of zoology in 1934. He was also Professor of entomology in the university's department of Zoology from 1906 until his retirement in 1948. In 1913, Walker and T.B. Kurata discovered a new order of insects, the Grylloblattaria (nowadays often ranked as suborder Grylloblattodea) on Sulphur Mountain, Alberta. He founded the invertebrate collection at the Royal Ontario Museum (which his father had helped create) in 1914, and served in various directorships at the museum - Assistant Director from 1918 - 1931, and Honorary Director from 1931 - 1969. In 1943, he married Norma Ford (an ex-student). He was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle medal in 1960, and was awarded an honorary degree from Carleton University. A scholarship named after him is offered by the University of Toronto. Walker also had many published works, including the three volume Odonata of Canada and Alaska, considered a definitive textbook on the topic, and was editor of the Canadian Entomologist journal from 1910 to 1920. Walker died in Toronto in 1969.


Linn Argyle Forrest, Sr. (1905–1987) was an American architect of Juneau, Alaska who worked to restore \"authentic Southeast Alaska Native architecture, especially totem poles\". During the 1930s and the Great Depression, he oversaw Civilian Conservation Corps programs of the New Deal to preserve totem poles and other aspects of traditional, native architecture. In conjunction with a $24,000 U.S. grant to the Alaska Native Brotherhood as a CCC project, Forrest oversaw the construction of the Shakes Island Community House and totems at Wrangell, Alaska during 1937-1939. Drawing on this experience, he later wrote The Wolf and the Raven: Totem Poles of Southeastern Alaska, which has been printed in 20 editions. Forrest designed the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, the Juneau Federal Building and, with Harold B. Foss, the nearby Chapel by the Lake. He designed the Elvey Building and the Ernest N. Patty Gymnasium (1963) at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Forrest came to Alaska after working in the 1930s in Oregon, where he was the lead exterior designer of Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood. Forrest is the architect of record of the Oregon State Forester's Office Building, at 2600 State Street in Salem, Oregon, constructed by CCC workers and craftsmen and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At one time he worked for the architecture group within the United States Forest Service Northwest regional office. Forrest married and had a family. His son, Linn Forrest, Jr., also became an architect. Together the two men designed the Alaska State Centennial Museum.


Dr. Michael A. Palese, is an American urologist specializing in robotic, laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery, with a special emphasis on robotic surgeries relating to kidney cancer and kidney stone disease. Dr. Palese is the Chairman of the Department of Urology at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital. He is a Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He is also the Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery for the Mount Sinai Health System and specializes in robotic, laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery. As a board-certified urologist and fellowship-trained surgeon, he specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney, ureter, adrenal, bladder and prostate disease. Dr. Palese is a world recognized surgeon and scholar who is also a leader in the development of new treatments and technologies. He performed the first robotic radical nephrectomy, robotic partial nephrectomy, robotic donor nephrectomy, robotic nephroureterectomy, robotic adrenalectomy, and robotic ureteral reimplant & reconstruction at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He holds several patents for the design of novel surgical devices. He has been included in the Castle Connolly’s List of America’s “Top Doctors” in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015 and The New York Times publication of “Superdoctors” in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015.


Charles A. Alluaud (4 May 1861, Limoges – 12 December 1949, Crozant) was a French entomologist. The Alluaud family had owned porcelain factories since the 18th century. His great grandfather had been chairman of the Ancienne Manufacture Royale de Limoges and his grandfather, François Alluaud (1778–1866), was a porcelain manufacturer, archaeologist, and geologist. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) taught painting to Charles and his brother Eugene. Charles left Limoges for Paris to supplement his studies but was an undisciplined pupil. The death of his parents enabled him to become an explorer. From 1887 to 1930, he went on many journeys in Africa (Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Kilimanjaro, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, the Sahara, Niger), the Canary Islands, Seychelles and Mascarene Islands. He assembled an important collections of insects during his voyages, later giving these to the entomology department of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. He was the author of 165 entomological publications. He was president of the Société entomologique de France in 1899 and 1914. Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855–1904) dedicated the genus Alluaudia to him.


Mark Clemence Telan (born January 12, 1976) is a Filipino professional basketball player who last suited up for the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters in the Philippine Basketball Association. A former De La Salle Green Archer, he was 2-time UAAP basketball Most Valuable Player. Telan entered the professional league in 1999 as a direct hire by the Tanduay Rhum Masters. When his team disbanded, he was acquired by the Shell Turbo Chargers, where he was named Most Improved Player in 2000. In 2002, he was then picked by the Talk 'N Text Phone Pals. After his tenure with Talk 'N Text, he was traded to the Air21 Express and then to the Coca-Cola Tigers. In 2009, Telan signed up with the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters as the offer was not matched by his team Coca-Cola. In 2010, he returns to Talk 'N Text. He is known to be a solid low post threat and a good outside shooter. His defense is also commendable.


Rodney George \"Rod\" Laver AC, MBE (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest in tennis history. He was the No. 1 ranked professional from 1964 to 1970, spanning four years before and three years after the start of the Open Era. He also was the No. 1 amateur in 1961–62 according to Lance Tingay. Laver's 200 singles titles are the most in tennis history, and he holds the all-time male singles records of 22 titles in a single season (1962) and seven consecutive years (1964–70) winning at least 10 titles per season. He excelled on all of the court surfaces of his time: grass, clay, hard, carpet, and wood/parquet. Despite being banned from playing the Grand Slam tournaments for the five years prior to the Open Era, he still won 11 singles titles. He is the only player to twice achieve the calendar-year Grand Slam, in 1962 and 1969, and remains the only man to do so during the Open Era. He also won eight Pro Slam titles, including the calendar year Pro \"Grand Slam\" in 1967, and contributed to five Davis Cup titles for Australia during an age when Davis Cup was deemed as significant as the Grand Slams.


Johnny Trí Nguyễn (born 16 January 1974; Saigon, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American actor, stuntman and martial arts choreographer who is mainly active in the Vietnamese film industry. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Nguyen and his family immigrated to the U.S. when he was 9. He competed as a martial artist on the U.S. national team, and then transitioned into a career as a stuntman in Hollywood, working on films such as Spider-Man 2 and Jarhead. Nguyen later returned to Vietnam and starred in The Rebel, a period martial arts film released in 2007 and directed by his brother Charlie Nguyen. It was a massive success in Vietnam, garnering unprecedented attention for a locally made film. Nguyen followed The Rebel by starring in a steady stream of hit films, many of which were directed by his brother, including Clash in 2009, De Mai tinh in 2010, and Teo Em in 2013, all of which broke box office records at the time of release.In a controversial decision, Vietnamese censors banned Nguyen's 2013 action flick Bui Doi Cho Lon for its violent content. Besides his work in Vietnamese films, Nguyen has had supporting roles in major films from Thailand (Tony Jaa's Tom-Yum-Goong) and India (7aum Arivu and Irumbu Kuthirai).


Thomas Mario \"Tommy\" Haas (born 3 April 1978) is a German-American professional tennis player. He has competed on the ATP Tour since 1996. After breaking into the world top 100 in 1997, and reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 2 in May 2002, Haas's career was interrupted by injuries: he has twice dropped out of the world rankings due to being unable to play for twelve months. His first period of injury saw him miss the whole of the 2003 season, and he did not return to the world's top 10 until 2007. He also missed over a year's tennis between February 2010 and June 2011, but has since returned to play on the tour. He returned to World No. 11 in 2013 after reaching the quarterfinals at the French Open for the first time in his career. Haas has reached the semifinals of the Australian Open three times, and Wimbledon once. He is among a few players to have reached the quarterfinal stage of each of the Grand Slams. He has won 15 career titles in singles, including one Masters tournament, and has a silver medal from the 2000 Summer Olympics.


Wayne Maurice Gomes [goms] (born January 15, 1973) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1997 through 2002 for the Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants and Boston Red Sox. Listed at 6' 2\", 215 lb., he batted and threw right handed. Born and raised in Hampton, Virginia, Gomes attended Old Dominion University and is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. In between, Gomes spent six seasons in the Minor Leagues, and also played winter ball with the Leones del Caracas club of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League during the 2004 season. Following his retirement from baseball, Gomes returned to his hometown area of Suffolk and formed the Virginia Baseball Academy. The VBA soon would be located at the Hampton Family YMCA on LaSalle Avenue in Hampton, offering baseball training services, practice venues, and baseball products. In addition, the VBA served as the operator of the Peninsula Pilots AAU baseball and softball organization.


Theo James Walcott (born 16 March 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Arsenal and the England national team. Walcott won the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award in 2006. Walcott is a product of the Southampton Academy and started his career with Southampton before joining Arsenal for £5 million in 2006. His speedy pace and ball crossing led his manager Arsène Wenger to deploy him on the wing for most of his career. Walcott has been played as a striker as in firstly the2012–13 season where he was Arsenal's topscorer. On 30 May 2006, Walcott became England's youngest ever senior football player aged 17 years and 75 days. On 6 September 2008, he made his first competitive start in a World Cup qualifier against Andorra, and in the following match against Croatia on 10 September he opened his senior international goals tally and became the youngest player in history to score a hat-trick for England. He has represented England at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2012 and has 42 caps, scoring eight goals.


(This article is about the celebrity chef. For the Welsh musician, see Jamie Oliver (musician).) James Trevor \"Jamie\" Oliver, MBE (born 27 May 1975) is a British celebrity chef and restaurateur. He is most known for his typical healthy English cuisine that has garnered him numerous television shows and restaurants. Born and raised in the village of Clavering, Essex, he was educated in London before taking his first culinary engagement at Antonio Carluccio's Neal Street restaurant as a pastry chef. In this capacity he was noticed by the BBC and in 1999 debuted his television show, The Naked Chef which was followed by his first cook book subsequently becoming the No. 1 bestseller in the UK. After his Naked Chef Series he was endorsed by multiple companies and expanded his television capacity to include a documentary called Jamie's Kitchen; garnering him an invitation from the Prime Minister to 10 Downing Street. In June 2003, Oliver was honored as a Member of the Order of the British Empire. In 2005, Oliver initiated a campaign originally called Feed Me Better to move British schoolchildren towards eating healthy foods and cutting out junk food; this campaign was eventually backed by the British government. Soon after he launched his first high-end restaurant, Jamie's Italian, in Oxford in 2008 and hosted a TED Talk winning him the 2010 TED Prize.


Eyvind Hellstrøm (born 2 December 1948 in Moss, Norway) is a chef and formerly the part owner of Bagatelle restaurant, a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in the city of Oslo. He was the president of the 2008 Bocuse d'Or Europe, is frequently a judge at the Bocuse d'Or world finals, and was himself a competition candidate in 1989, placing fifth. In December 2009, Hellstrøm announced he would leave Bagatelle after 27 years, due to a long term conflict with majority owner Christen Sveaas. Hellstrøm and the entire Bagatelle staff worked their final shift on 21 December. An author of several books, including Inn med sølvskje with Anne-Kat. Hærland, Hellstrøm also hostes the Norwegian TV3 television show Hellstrøm rydder opp, broadcast in 2008, 2009 and 2010, a Norwegian version of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Though initially criticized for playing the role excessively \"nice\", the series featured its share of conflicts such as the episode devoted to the Trondheim sea food restaurant Fru Inger. The programme was characterised as a \"slaughter\" of Fru Inger, and shortly after the broadcast the restaurant was forced to close down. In 2010, Hellstrøm joined Tom Victor Gausdal and Jan Vardøen as judges on the TV3 version of the cooking challenge TV program MasterChef. In 2007 Hellstrøm was awarded the Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.


Adriana Nikolova (born November 8, 1988 in Stara Zagora) is a Bulgarian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is Bulgaria's newest WGM and her chess club team is Lokomotiv 2000 from Plovdiv, with which she has won three national championships. In November 2008, Nikolova earned the title of Woman International Master (WIM).She has so far represented her country in six major chess championships - the European Team Chess Championship, which was held in Novi Sad in 2009 (scoring 1.5/7 on Board 2), the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk (achieving 5/9 on Board 3), the 2011 European Team Chess Championship hosted at the Porto Carras resort in Greece (managing 4.5/7 on Board 4), the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (finishing with 5/9 points on Board 3), the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (securing 6/9 points on Board 3), as well as the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku (her final score being 6/10 on Board 3). In July 2011, she received a gold medal and an official certificate to honour her achievement in becoming a woman grandmaster. Nikolova also won the 2011 edition of the Bulgarian Women Chess Championship (scoring 9/11). Nikolova married chess arbiter Dimitar Iliev in 2011.


Wilhelm Tranow was a very successful German cryptanalyst, who before and during World War II, worked in the monitoring service of the German Navy, and was responsible for breaking a number of encrypted radio communication systems, particularly the Naval Cypher, which was used by the British Admiralty for encrypting operational signals and Naval Code for encrypting administrative signalsTranow was considered one of the most important cryptanalysts of B-service. He was described as having [an] old drive and energetic. Little was known about his personal life, when and where he was born, or where he died. The American historian David Kahn underscored the war-historical significance of this cryptography and cryptanalysis success of Tranow, citing an anonymous source: If one man in German intelligence ever held the keys to victory in World War II, it what Wilhelm Tranow\"  (German: \"Falls ein Mann in der deutschen Aufklärung jemals die Schlüssel zum Sieg im Zweiten Weltkrieg in Händen gehalten hat, dann war es Wilhelm Tranow).


Edward John \"Eddie\" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. His comedic style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue, and self-referential pantomime. He had a starring role in the television series The Riches as Wayne Malloy and has appeared in films such as Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Mystery Men, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cat's Meow, Across the Universe, and Valkyrie. He has also worked as a voice actor in The Wild (2006), Igor (2008), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), and Cars 2 (2011). Izzard has cited his main comedy role model as Monty Python, and John Cleese once referred to him as the \"Lost Python\". In 2009, he completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no prior history of long-distance running. He has won numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his comedy special Dress to Kill, in 2000. Izzard's website won the Yahoo People's Choice Award and earned the Webby Award.


Ryan Cousins (born April 1, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former professional lacrosse player. Cousins played for eleven seasons in the National Lacrosse League, winning a championship in 2012 with the Rochester Knighthawks. He was selected to play in the National Lacrosse League All-Star Game in both 2004 and 2005. Cousins plays for the Victoria Shamrocks of the WLA in the offseason. Cousins was awarded the National Lacrosse League Defensive Player of the Year Award in both the 2007 and 2008 seasons. During the 2009 NLL season, he was named a reserve to the All-Star game. In July 2011, Cousins was traded to the Edmonton Rush, along with Aaron Wilson and Kevin Croswell, in exchange for a number of entry draft picks. Three months later, Cousins was traded again, this time to the Rochester Knighthawks. The Rush sent Cousins, Alex Kedoh Hill, and Andy Secore to Rochester for Knighthawks captain Shawn Williams and Aaron Bold. Cousins suffered a knee injury prior to the 2012 season, and was considering retirement, but was convinced by the Knighthawks to return. Cousins' decision paid off, as the Knighthawks won the 2012 NLL Championship. After suffering another injury prior to the 2013 season, Cousins announced his retirement in February, 2013.


Chris Cuffaro (born April 14, 1960) is an American photographer. Primarily known for his portraits of musicians, Cuffaro has photographed Michael Hutchence, Henry Rollins, George Michael, George Harrison and Jane's Addiction, among others. He was closely associated with the Seattle rock scene of the early 1990s, and frequently photographed artists including Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Cuffaro made several music videos. Most notably, he directed the first video for the Pearl Jam song \"Jeremy.\" Although Pearl Jam's label supported the effort - Cuffaro and Eddie Vedder had become friends -- the label ultimately shelved the black-and-white video, instead commissioning a more commercial video when \"Jeremy\" was released as a single in 1991. Composed of 31 photographs, the first exhibition of Cuffaro's photography was held in Los Angeles in 1992. In 2011, his portraits of Michael Hutchence and INXS were exhibited in London. Titled Michael Hutchence & INXS: Rare & Unseen by Chris Cuffaro, it was held at the Gallery Soho. In 2014, work began on Cuffaro's Greatest Hits,an exhibit based on Cuffaro's 30-year career as a photographer. The exhibit will be accompanied by a documentary.


Peter Alfred Penfold, CMG, OBE, (born 27 February 1944) is a retired British diplomat. His career began in 1963, when he joined the Foreign Service as a clerical officer. Two years into his career, he was posted to the British embassy in Bonn, West Germany, and two years after that to Nigeria. From 1970 to 1972, Penfold served as a \"floater\" in Latin America, filling in as necessary for staff at British missions in the region. He served in Mexico during the 1970 football world cup, and on St Vincent, where he was responsible for organising an evacuation after a volcanic eruption. After Latin America, Penfold briefly served in Canberra, before returning to London to take a post in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He earned early promotion to second secretary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he was responsible for reporting on the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the Eritrean War of Independence and was still in the country during the revolution, in which the pro-Western emperor was overthrown. After completing his tour in Ethiopia, Penfold served as information officer in Port of Spain and then as first secretary in the West Africa Department of the FCO. Penfold's next overseas posting was to Kampala, Uganda, as deputy high commissioner. There, he persuaded President Milton Obote to attend the queen's birthday party for the first time. Two months later, Obote was overthrown in a coup, after which Penfold led an evacuation of foreign citizens to Kenya. The high commission remained open, and Penfold was still present six months later when a second coup took place. In 1987, he again returned to the FCO, this time serving in the West Indian and Atlantic Department, and four years later, he was appointed Governor of the British Virgin Islands. The main issues of Penfold's tenure were the establishment of the territory as an offshore financial centre and the smuggling of drugs through its waters until the sudden death of the chief minister. Penfold resolved the subsequent constitutional crisis by appointing the deputy chief minister as an interim replacement. Penfold's term as governor expired in 1996, after which he spent a year as a drugs adviser to the Caribbean before being appointed High Commissioner to Sierra Leone in 1997. Six weeks into Penfold's term, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was overthrown in a military coup and Penfold organised an evacuation of foreign citizens. After a hotel housing the remaining foreign nationals was attacked, Penfold organised a further evacuation, which was conducted by an American warship. The ship transported the evacuees—including Penfold—to Conakry in neighbouring Guinea. While in Conakry, Penfold advised Kabbah on re-establishing his government in exile, and leased a disused restaurant for the government's headquarters. Kabbah was restored in February 1998, but the role of the private military company Sandline International in assisting Kabbah created controversy in the United Kingdom, as its services were alleged to violate an arms embargo on Sierra Leone. After an HM Customs investigation, a parliamentary inquiry, and a select committee investigation, Penfold was reprimanded but allowed to return to his post. Later in the year, violence began to intensify again in Sierra Leone, and Penfold was ordered to evacuate foreign nationals (the eight evacuation of his career and the second in Sierra Leone) over Christmas 1998. He requested an extension to his term as high commissioner, but the request was denied and he left Sierra Leone in April 2000. He spent the last year of his career working for the Department for International Development and retired in 2001. In retirement, Penfold has spoken on issues concerning Africa, particularly Sierra Leone, and has been critical of the FCO. His support of Kabbah, and his role in returning him to power in 1998, earned Penfold folk hero status in Sierra Leone.


James Riley Blake (born December 28, 1979) is an American retired professional tennis player. Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. During his career, Blake had amassed 24 singles finals appearances (10–14 record), while his career-high singles ranking was World No. 4. His career highlights included reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (2008) and US Open (2005, 2006), as well as being the former American No. 1. His two titles for the United States at the Hopman Cup are an event record. Blake was a key performer for the United States 2007 Davis Cup championship team, going 2–0 in the championship tie vs. Russia at second singles. In 2005, Blake was presented with the Comeback Player of the Year award for his remarkable return to the tour. Later, in 2008, Blake was awarded another honor by the ATP, where he was named the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. On July 3, 2007, Blake's autobiography Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life, which discussed his comeback after his unlucky 2004 season, was released and debuted at No. 22 on the New York Times Best Seller list. He co-wrote this book with Andrew Friedman. Blake announced that he would retire from tennis after competing at the 2013 US Open, where he suffered a first round loss in five sets against Ivo Karlovic. Blake's career ended on August 29, 2013, after a 6–2 2–6 2–6 doubles loss in the 2013 US Open.


James Joseph \"Jim\" Norton, Jr. (born July 19, 1968) is an American comedian, radio personality, author, and actor. He is best known as the co-host of Opie with Jim Norton with Gregg \"Opie\" Hughes on Sirius XM Radio since July 2014, and his time on Opie and Anthony from 2001. Norton was a regular guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has filmed an HBO stand-up special for the series One Night Stand as well as his special Monster Rain, co-starred in the HBO sitcom Lucky Louie, and had cameos in the films Spider-Man, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and Courting Condi. Norton hosted a four-episode stand-up showcase for HBO titled Down and Dirty with Jim Norton and appeared on The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget. He hosted the VICE talk-show The Jim Norton Show. He was also in Jerry Seinfeld's 2002 documentary Comedian.


Julio Leonardo Peralta Martínez (born 9 September 1981, in Santiago, Chile) and known professionally as Julio Peralta, is a Chilean professional tennis player. Peralta has captured one doubles title at ATP World Tour and one singles challenger title, BH Tennis Open International Cup in Belo Horizonte. He made his comeback (after long, exhausting, two-year injury) in the 2011 Sparkassen Open, winning comfortably the first two qualifying rounds, against Stefan Seifert and David Goffin (No. 220). In the main tournament he defeated Victor Crivoi.After a long hiatus, he returned again in action in the Napa Challenger doubles tournament partnering Matt Seeberger. In early November he won the titles in both singles and doubles USA F30 tournament. He did not lose a single set in main draw in both tournaments. In Chile F9 tournament he made the singles final, losing to Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and the following week won the doubles tournament in Chile F10 partnering Seeberger.


Manish Malhotra is one of India's most successful fashion designers. Malhotra has designed for many leading actresses in Bollywood. He is known in the Indian film industry for his different style and his ability to envision a 'look' for the character. He is known for designing the costumes for Urmila Matondkar in the film Rangeela. Stars including Madhuri Dixit, Sridevi, Kajol, Karisma Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Kareena Kapoor, Rani Mukherji, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif, Sonam Kapoor, Deepika Padukone,Jacqueline Fernandez, Sonakshi Sinha, Preity Zinta and Parineeti Chopra have worn his designs. Although he usually designs for women, he designed for Shahrukh Khan in Mohabbatein and  Imran Khan in I Hate Luv Storys. He was also asked to design clothes for Michael Jackson when he visited India for a Bollywood show. His designs have been seen in films such as Dil To Pagal Hai, Dil Se.., Raja Hindustani, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dhadkan and Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai. Manish has trained fellow designer Surily Goel, who made her debut at Lakme Fashion Week 2006. In 2005, he began a talk show named The Manish Malhotra Show.He also did the makeover of actress Neha Bamb in the serial Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai


Andrew Thomas \"Tommy\" Doyle (September 23, 1917 – July 22, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer known for his success with young horses. He was reported as both \"Tommy Doyle\" and \"A. T. Doyle.\" A native of Dublin, Ireland, Tommy Doyle came from a family with a long history in the sport of horse racing. He emigrated to the United States in 1951 and made his way to California where he eventually owned a ranch in Bradbury on which he raised and trained horses. Widely respected for his ability to work with young horses, two-year-old fillies trained by Tommy Doyle won the Junior Miss and Del Mar Debutante Stakes a combined thirteen times. Among his best-known horses, Doyle trained Typecast to the 1972 American Champion Older Female Horse title and in 1975 conditioned Avatar to wins in the Santa Anita Derby  and the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes. Tommy Doyle died from Alzheimer's disease at age 71 in 1989.


Catherine Murray di Montezemolo (September 18, 1925 – April 22, 2009) was a fashion editor with a prominent position in Southampton society. Di Montezemolo was born to a wealthy family—her grandfather was the prolific inventor and engineer, Thomas E. Murray, who together with Thomas Edison helped to found the NY-based utility, Con Edison, in the early twentieth century. The Murray family was the main subject of Stephen Birmingham's book Real Lace: America's Irish Rich and John Corry's Golden Clan: The Murrays, the McDonnells, & the Irish American Aristocracy. Mrs. di Montezemelo attended Catholic school in Suffern, New York. After graduation, she took a job at Vogue, where she worked for 30 years. She advised and promoted the work of young designers such as Anne Fogarty and Claire McCardell. Athletic, she was an early student of Joseph Pilates. In 1958, she married an Italian nobleman, Alessandro di Montezemolo (Nobile of the Marchesi di Montezemolo), who was a senior executive at Marsh & McLennan. She and her husband became fixtures in the Southampton, where she spent her summers as a child on a vast beachfront property along Wickapogue Road that came to be known as the \"Murray Compound\" because so many family members built houses near one another. Until the 1970s, the only residents of the 250-acre (1.0 km2) plot were the Murrays and their cousins, the McDonnells. She left Vogue in the late 1970s. Later, she designed her own fashion collection and was active in Southampton charity activity. Di Montezemolo died at age 83 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.


Drew Petkoff (born August 16, 1992) is a professional lacrosse player under contract with the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League. Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, Petkoff began his junior career in 2002 with the Milton Mavericks of the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League, and was acquired by the Oakville Buzz in 2005, winning the Founders Cup with the Buzz in 2006. He also spent time with the Senior B Ajax-Pickering Rock in 2008 and 2009. Petkoff began his Major Series Lacrosse career in 2009 and won two Mann Cups with the Brampton Excelsiors before being dealt to the Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks in 2011. He last played for the Kodiaks in 2013. Petkoff began his NLL career in 2010 with the Toronto Rock. He played 25 games with the Rock between 2010 and 2012, winning the Champion's Cup in 2011. Petkoff then joined the Bandits, and sat out most of 2013 and all of 2014 nursing a concussion. He is currently on the Bandits' holdout list. Petkoff is a veteran of number of junior hockey leagues, and played college hockey at the University of Windsor.


Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez (28 August 1778, Lille – 28 December 1856, Bruxelles)  was a Belgian naturalist. He founded with the French botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846) and the Belgian chemist Jean-Baptiste Van Mons (1765–1842) the \"Annales générales de Sciences physiques consacrées aux Sciences naturelles\" published in six volumes between 1819 and 1822. His \"Dictionnaire portatif de chimie, de minéralogie et de géologie, en rapport avec l'état présent de ces sciences, composé par une société de chimistes, de minéralogistes et de géologues\" was published in 1824 and \"Résumé d'ornithologie ou d'histoire naturelle des oiseaux\" in 1829. He published in 1833 with Pierre Corneille van Geel (1796–1838), \"Encyclographie du règne végétal\". He was also the author of \"Guide pratique de minéralogie usuelle\" and \"Dictionnaire classique des sciences naturelles\". He left his library of 4,000 volumes, to the town of Mons. The standard author abbreviation Drapiez is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.


James Simpson (1799–1869) was a British civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from January 1853 to January 1855. James Simpson was the fourth son of Thomas Simpson, engineer of the Chelsea Waterworks. James succeeded his father in both this post and that of engineer of the Lambeth Waterworks Company. It was under Simpson's instruction that the Chelsea Waterworks became the first in the country to install a slow sand filtration system to purify the water they were drawing from the River Thames. This filter consisted of successive beds of loose brick, gravel and sand to remove solids from the water. He also designed waterworks at Windsor Castle and Bristol as well as The Wooden Pier at Southend on Sea.James Simpson established J. Simpson & Co., a manufacturer of steam engines and pumps. He made several improvements to the design of these machines.


(For other people with the same name, see Billy Morgan (disambiguation).) William Henry \"Billy\" Morgan (1878 – 1939) was an English footballer who played as a half back. Born in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, he began his football career with Horwich F.C. In January 1897, he was sold to Newton Heath, making his debut appearance against Darwen on 2 March 1897. He was one of the team during the first season after Newton Heath became Manchester United. During his time with the club, he made 152 appearances (all in Division 2) and scored seven goals (six in Division 2 games, one in an FA Cup match). He transferred to join Bolton Wanderers in March 1903 and went on to play for Watford, Leicester Fosse, New Brompton and Newton Heath Athletic. By the time he joined up for the First World War (being assigned to the 20th Service Battalion, Manchester Regiment), Morgan was working as a cleaner. But the fact that he still enjoyed his football is clear from the notes in his army pension records when he was discharged in February 1915 as being \"[unlikely] to become an efficient soldier\". The reason given was that he had \"an old football injury [and had been injured] once again last Saturday the 28th (February) playing football.\" Morgan married Mary Alice Barnett in 1900 and the couple had two children, both born in Newton Heath, Manchester. He died in Manchester on 5 June 1939, at the age of 61.


Mark Feldstein (May 3, 1937 – October 2001), was an American artist and photographer best known for his large format photography of the streetlife and architecture of New York City. Feldstein, whose parents were German Jews, often remarked that he just happened to be born in Milan, where his family were located during their emigration from Nazi Germany to the United States. He grew up in New York City and earned art degrees from Hunter College where he studied with Robert Motherwell. Around 1970, after ten years as a painter, he turned to photography. He later joined the Hunter College faculty as a photography professor, teaching along with Roy DeCarava. He created the scenic photography for the Broadway musical, The Tap Dance Kid, which ran from December 21, 1983 through August 11, 1985, featuring Savion Glover in the title role. At this time he was also conducting workshops for Olden Camera. He inspired countless photographers with his insights into street photography.


Giulio Cabianca (February 19, 1923 – June 15, 1961) was a Formula One driver from Italy. Cabianca was born in Verona, northern Italy. He participated in 4 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on May 18, 1958. He scored a total of 3 championship points. He also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race. He also won the Dolomites Gold Cup Race in 1955. Cabianca's death resulted from a bizarre incident at the Modena Autodrome test track in Italy. The Modena Autodrome was situated near Via Emilia, which crosses the city of Modena. Cabianca was testing a Cooper-Ferrari F1 car, owned by Scuderia Castellotti, when he suffered a suspected stuck throttle. Unable to stop, his Cooper went off track, struck a spectator and then went through the gate of the Autodrome which was open because of men at work near the track. The car crossed the Via Emilia and crashed against the wall of a workshop. Crossing the road, Cabianca's Cooper struck a bicycle, a motorcycle, and a small mini-van (not a taxi as often reported) and three parked cars. The driver of the mini-van (also called \"giardinetta\" following a famous van of Fiat) and the motorcycle driver were killed at the scene. The biker was crushed and killed instantly by a heavy block of iron carried on the mini-van. Cabianca was conscious, but died a few hours later at the hospital. The spectator hit just after the car left the track suffered severe leg injuries, but survived.


Trevor R. Tierney is a current National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's lacrosse assistant coach, former Major League Lacrosse (MLL) defensive coordinator and retired lacrosse goaltender who has played professional box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League (NLL) and professional field lacrosse in MLL. Trevor starred as a member of the Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse team from 1998 through 2001, where he was a NCAA goaltender of the year, two-time United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-American (first team once), a national goals against average (GAA) and save percentage statistical champion and a member of two national champion teams. During his time at Princeton, the team qualified for the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship all four years, reached the championship game three times, won the championship game twice and won four Ivy League championships. Trevor was a co-captain of the second national champion team he participated on. For five years, Tierney held the NCAA goaltending all-time records and continues to hold the Princeton University career GAA record. He is the son of Hall of Fame coach Bill Tierney. He was a two-time Team USA goaltender for the World Lacrosse Championships and a former All-World goaltender. He is a three-time MLL All-Star and won a MLL championship. Since retiring he has become a defensive coordinator for MLL's Denver Outlaws and a defensive assistant for his fathers Denver Pioneers team.


Géza Horváth (23 November 1847, Csécs – 8 September 1937, Budapest) was a Hungarian doctor and entomologist internationally recognized for his work on bugs (Hemiptera). He also contributed extensively to the study of Hungarian scale insect fauna. He published over 350 papers in his lifetime. He was made director of the newly established National Phylloxera Research Station in Budapest in 1880, where he did research on aphids, Phylloxera and psyllids. He continued as director after it was renamed The State Entomological Station and broadened its focus to other kinds of noxious insects. In 1896 he returned to the Hungarian National Museum, where he was director of its Zoology Department until he retired. He remained active in entomology after retirement, and was president of the 10th International Zoological Conference when Budapest hosted it in 1927 (his 80th year). A species of lizard, Iberolacerta horvathi, is named in his honor.


Anthony John \"Tony\" Mottram (8 June 1920 – 6 October 2016) was a British tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. Mottram reached the quarterfinal of the 1948 Wimbledon Championships in which he lost to Gardnar Mulloy. He was the father of tennis champion Buster Mottram. In the doubles event he reached the final of the 1947 Wimbledon Championships with Bill Sidwell in which they were defeated by the first-seeded team of Jack Kramer and Bob Falkenburg. He reached the French Open's fourth round in both 1947 and 1948, and the third round of the 1951 US Open. Mottram was born in Coventry, then Warwickshire (now West Midlands), England. He appeared as a \"castaway\" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 14 June 1955. The All England Lawn Tennis Club elected him an Honorary Member in 1957. Mottram died on 6 October 2016 at the age of 96.


John Glatzel (born May 27, 1979 in Ellicott City, Maryland) was a professional lacrosse player in the Major League Lacrosse and a graduate of Syracuse University. Glatzel was a three-time All-American and named to the NCAA All-Tournament team three times while playing for the Orange. He won the William Schmeisser Award (Outstanding Defensemen in Division I) in his senior year and was a finalist for two years prior. Glatzel was also elected captain twice and played for the US in the World Games in 2002. 2002: Team captain…STX/USILA First-Team All-American…recipient of the William Schmeisser Award (Outstanding Defensemen-Division I)…named to the All-Tournament team…selected to the Pioneer Face-Off Classic All-Tournament Team…played for the North in the North/South Collegiate All-Star game…started and played in all 17 games…had 2 assists and 2 points…second on team in groundballs (65). 2001: USILA/STX First-Team All-American...named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team...after the season he tried out and was selected to represent the United States in the 2002 International Lacrosse Federation World Championship...served as Syracuse tri-captain...helped key an SU defensive unit that ranked eighth in the nation in scoring defense...Glatzel and the Orange defense allowed a measly 8.00 goals per game...was usually assigned to cover the opponent's top attackman...totalled five ground balls in the final two games against Notre Dame and Princeton...covered UND's David Ulrich, his high school teammate, in the semifinals...held Princeton's leading scorer, Ryan Boyle, without a goal in the championship game...intercepted two passes down the stretch of the UMass game...recorded the first assist of his career against Cornell on April 10...equalled his career-high with six groundballs at Georgetown...named to the Fall 2000 and the Spring 2001 Athletic Director's Honor Rolls. 2000: Started all 16 games despite spraining his thumb in the Yale game...had to wear a removable cast during competition and practice...selected to the NCAA All-Tournament Team...named to the USILA/STX All-America Second Team...collected 50 groundballs on the season...named to the Fall 1999 Athletic Director's Honor Roll and the Spring 2000 Athletic Director's Honor Roll. 1999: Red-shirt. 1998: Played in 13 games, started seven...collected 31 groundballs...scored first collegiate goal vs. University of Pennsylvania. High School: Lettered in lacrosse, soccer and basketball at Boys' Latin...National High School Player of the year, Baltimore Sun Player of the Year as a senior...played in the North-South Game and the Maryland All-Star Game...all-state and all-county as a junior and senior...team captain as a junior and senior. Glatzel played for the 2002 Gold-medal winning US national team. Glatzel was drafted in the 1st round (5th overall) of the 2002 Major League Lacrosse draft by the Rochester Rattlers. Glatzel played in three Major League Lacrosse All-Star Games (2003, 2004, and 2005) as a Rattler. Prior to the 2006 season he was acquired by the Boston Cannons. He was then picked up by New Jersey in the 2008 Supplemental Draft, 1st round,3rd selection. Glatzel retired from the MLL in 2008.


Lazzaro Calvi (1512–1587) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Genoa and trained with his father Agostino Calvi and Perin del Vaga. Older sources claim he lived till the improbable age of 105 years His elder brother Pantaleone (died 1595) was also a painter. They worked together at Genoa and the different cities of the republic, as well as at Monaco and Naples. Pantaleono acting as the decorator for Luzzato’s works. They painted a façade of the Palazzo Doria (now Palazzo Spinola). They painted a Continence of Scipio for a palace in Genoa. Lazzaro, irritated by the success of some of his contemporaries, prompted him to the commission the poisoning of Giacomo Bargone; and he hired persons to vilify the works of the ablest painters of the time, and to extol his own. While engaged in these schemes, he was engaged to paint the Birth and Life of St. John the Baptist, together with Andrea Semini and Luca Cambiaso, for the chapel of the Nobili Centurioni. Lazzaro was so mortified at this challenge, that he became a mariner, and withdrew himself from painting for twenty years. He returned, however, to his profession, which he continued till he was in his 85th year. His last works were for the church of Santa Cattaprina. Pantaleone's sons: Aurelio, Marcantonio, Benedetto, and Felice; also became painters. Of these, Marcantonio Calvi was the most distinguished painting with his brothers decorations in palazzo Doria, and by himself in Pegli, San Pietro d'Ancona, and other palaces of Liguria, including the loggia degli Spinola. He then moved to Venice. The brothers painted in the Convent of Gesu e Maria in Genoa, and in the church of Santa Caterina.


Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, where he logged over 900 flights. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California. A participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962. He made his first space flight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. He performed the first docking of two spacecraft, with pilot David Scott. This mission was aborted after Armstrong used some of his reentry control fuel to prevent a dangerous spin caused by a stuck thruster, in the first in-flight space emergency. Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as commander of Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing mission in July 1969. Armstrong and Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module. Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. Armstrong and his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. Armstrong died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 25, 2012, at the age of 82, after complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.


George J. \"Germany\" Smith (April 21, 1863 – December 1, 1927) was an American Major League Baseball player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He played primarily shortstop for five different teams spanning 15 seasons. He made his major league debut for Altoona Mountain City of the Union Association in 1884. After Altoona's team folded after just 25 games, he jumped to the Cleveland Blues of the National League. After the 1884 season, Cleveland then sold him, along with 6 other players, to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms for $4000. On June 17, 1885, Germany reportedly committed seven errors intentionally, when his team decided to punish new pitcher, Phenomenal Smith, losing the game 18-5. All 18 runs against the brash left-hander were unearned‚ due to a total of 14 Brooklyn \"errors\". \"Phenomenal\" gave himself his nickname before he joined the team‚ saying that he was so good that he didn't need his teammates to win. The intentional misplays of his teammates caused club President Lynch to fine the guilty players $500 each‚ but he reluctantly agrees to release Smith to ensure team harmony. A reliable shortstop in the days when a fielding average below .900 could lead the league, he did, in fact, lead the American Association in 1887, with an .886 average. When the AA folded in 1890, he, along with most members of the team transferred to the National League's new Brooklyn franchise. In 1891 John Montgomery Ward took over as manager and shortstop, effectively ending Smith's career with Brooklyn, so he left and joined the Cincinnati Reds. There he led NL shortstops in assists each year from 1891 to 1894. Smith later returned in 1897, when Cincinnati and Brooklyn swapped shortstops, with Tommy Corcoran moving to the Reds. His major league career came to end after the 1898 season, when he played just 51 games for the St. Louis Browns, and moved on to play for the Minneapolis Millers of the Northwestern League for the 1899 and 1900 seasons. Smith died at the age of 64 in Altoona, Pennsylvania from injuries when struck by an automobile, and is interred at Calvary Cemetery in Altoona.


Stephen Yan (born in Hong Kong) was the host of the successful Canadian television cooking show for CBC Television, Wok with Yan. The Vancouver-based chef moved to Canada in the 1960s and owned two Chinese restaurants in Vancouver. His hit show was originally produced at CBOT in Ottawa from 1980 to 1995 and was syndicated in the United States and Asia. For over 15 years Stephen produced over 500 episodes of Wok with Yan. Stephen also has produced travel and variety shows called Wok's Up? for CBC, Yan's Wokking for BCTV, and several half-hour travel specials on Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Walt Disney World, Malaysia, Singapore, and Fiji. On May 14, 1986, Yan also released a 60-minute show on video cassette titled, Wok On The Wild Side, Wok With Yan Volume 2, where he showed how to prepare and cook the following menu: prawns in a nest, egg rolls, sweet and sour fish, gold coin beef, hot and sour soup, ginger lobster, and chicken with pineapple. Yan's charismatic personality on his television show can be attributed to his spontaneous humour that included one-liners spoken with his trademark Cantonese accent or him playing with his food or cookware. He has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, and other shows from the United States to Australia. A trademark of his was aprons that bore a different 'wok' pun every show. Some examples are: \n* Wok & Roll  \n* Wokking My Baby Back Home  \n* Danger, Men at Wok  \n* Wok Around the Clock  \n* Wok the Heck  \n* You Are Wok You Eat  \n* Wok Goes up Must Come Down  \n* Wok's New, Pussycat?  \n* Wokkey Night in Canada \n* Stuck Between a Wok and a Hard Place \n* Raiders of The Lost Wok \n* Moon Wok \n* Jailhouse Wok \n* Over Wok, Under Pay \n* Wok Me to the Church On Time \n* Woksy Ladies \n* Wok-A-Doodle-Doo Yan was the author of bestselling cook books: \n*  Vegetables the Chinese Way  \n*  Creative Carving \n*  The Stephen Yan Seafood Wokbook \n*  Wok with Yan Television Cookbook He also created various names for some of the ingredients that he used in his cooking, they include: \n* \"Chinese Water\" \n* \"Wonder Powder\" \n* \"Five Spicey\" Wok Before You Run is another cooking videotape produced in the 1980s and distributed worldwide. He is not related to Chinese American chef Martin Yan of the PBS series Yan Can Cook, though Martin was an employee and had worked for Stephen Yan in the 1980s as demonstrator for Stephen's products.


Flemming Gert Nielsen, known simply as Flemming Nielsen, (born 24 February 1934) is a Danish former football player in the midfielder position, who won a silver medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He played professionally for Atalanta BC and Greenock Morton. Born in Copenhagen, Nielsen played as an amateur for local clubs B 93 and AB. He made his debut for the amateur-only Danish national team in June 1954, and played five games and scored two goals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He played his last national team game in October 1960, having played a total 26 games and scored four goals for Denmark, before turning professional. He signed a professional contract with Italian club Atalanta BC and played three seasons in Serie A for the club. He played a total 92 games and scored eight goals for Atalanta in the Serie A, and won the 1963 Coppa Italia with the club. He then moved on Greenock Morton in Scotland in 1964. He played 29 games and scored two goals in two seasons with Greenock. In 1966, he moved back to Denmark, where he ended his career for B 93 in 1967. After ending his active career, Nielsen was a sports journalist for Aftenbladet, Politiken, and B.T., and wrote two books about football.


James William Smith-Betsil (December 12, 1934 – May 5, 2002) was an American basketball player and political activist. He was an All-American college player at the College of Steubenville (now Franciscan University of Steubenville) and was a second-round pick in the 1958 NBA draft. Smith was born James Betsil and played his first two years of high school basketball at Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During the Summer before his junior year, he transferred to Homestead High School in Homestead, Pennsylvania. He made the move largely to increase his chances of playing college basketball, going so far as to move in with a local family (who became his legal guardians) and legally changing his name to James Smith. Following his high school career, Smith went to Steubenville for college, becoming perhaps the greatest player in school history. He was twice named an All-American, averaged over 20 rebounds per game and scored 2,048 points for his career. Following the close of his college career, Smith was drafted in the second round of the 1958 NBA draft (15th pick overall) by the Boston Celtics. However, he was drafted into the United States Army as well. Smith was discharged in 1960 due to knee problems, injuries that ultimately derailed his professional basketball career. Smith ultimately became an activist for racial integration and later a public servant. He died on May 5, 2002 due to complications from leukemia.


Christopher John \"Chris\" Cassidy (born January 4, 1970, in Salem, Massachusetts) is a NASA astronaut and United States Navy SEAL. Chris Cassidy achieved the rank of Captain in the U.S. Navy. He currently serves as Chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA. Cassidy attended York High School, in York, Maine. He then graduated from the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1989. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy in 1993 and a Master's degree in ocean engineering from MIT in 2000. While in the Navy, Cassidy passed BUD/S and became a Navy SEAL. While a SEAL he served several tours of duty supporting the fight in the War on Terror. He resides in York, Maine with his wife, Julie Byrd, and their three children. His first spaceflight was on Space Shuttle mission STS-127, and his second was as a flight engineer for Expedition 35/36, launched aboard Soyuz TMA-08M. He was in space between July 15–31, 2009 and March 28 – September 10, 2013. Cassidy has worked as a CAPCOM for both International Space Station and Space Shuttle missions in the past.


Jamie Kennedy (born Henry James Kennedy) is a Canadian chef Kennedy has been the owner and operator of Gilead Café since 2003. The cafe closed down in March, 2015. He is also the proprietor of Jamie Kennedy Kitchens based in Toronto, Ontario. Kennedy's cafe was notable for its Wine Bar, menu of small tapas-like dishes and dessert items, suitable for sharing and sampling, and a seating area where diners could observe and talk to the chef and sous chefs preparing plates for guests. In 2005, Kennedy opened a restaurant adjacent to the Wine Bar which served a more complete seasonal menu of various Canadian and international failures. The restaurant has since closed and in October 2008, was replaced by a cafe. In 2006, Kennedy opened another restaurant, Jamie Kennedy Gardiner, at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art which has undergone a complete renovation. Coupled with his restaurant business is a catering service and event space that can be rented. Kennedy used to possess an operation at the Royal Ontario Museum, Jamie Kennedy at the ROM, which operated on the third floor of the museum and its member lounge, but has since closed due to the museum's own extensive renovations and restoration. Kennedy was the inaugural recipient of the Governor General's Award in Celebration of the Nation's Table, in 2010. In December 2010, was awarded the Order of Canada for his promotion of Canadian cuisine and the use of organic, sustainable and locally-sourced foods. In 2015 Kennedy produced a cookbook, J.K. The Jamie Kennedy Cookbook.


Daniel R. Mackesey was born July 14, 1954 in Ithaca, New York and attended Cornell University where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and graduated cum laude in 1977. While at Cornell, Mackesey played on the lacrosse team with distinction. He was an integral member of Cornell’s national championship teams in 1976 and 1977. He was a first team All-American both of those seasons as well as winning All-Ivy honors. Cornell won the Ivy League championship in each of Mackesey’s three seasons on the varsity roster. Awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 1978, Mackesey was the recipient of the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the nation’s outstanding goaltender and a recipient of the NCAA Top Five Award in 1978. After Cornell, Mackesey played for the 1978 U.S. National Team, helping the team to a silver medal in the World Games. Mackesey has been inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame and is a member of the class of 2006 inductees to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Mackesey graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and practices law today with the law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC in its Tysons Corner, Virginia office.


Robert Vorhoelzer (born 13 June 1884 Memmingen - died 23 October 1954 Munich) was a German architect. Bavarian architect Robert Vorhoelzer belongs to the classical modernist school of architecture that is otherwise rather underrepresented in Bavaria. Most of his works were built when Vorhoelzer was Oberbaurat of the Bavarian postal administration. Together with Robert Poeverlein he founded the \"Bayerische Postbauschule\". In the early stages of his work, such as at the post office Penzberg or the post office on Ismaninger Straße in Munich, the influence of the \"Heimatstil\" was dominant. But later Vorhoelzer built many modern and functional buildings (post offices, depots, apartment buildings for postal staff etc.) in the style of Neue Sachlichkeit. These include, for example, the post office on Tegernseer Landstraße ( \"Tela-Post\") in Munich-Obergiesing, the post office building at Goethe Platz or the post office at Harras place in Munich-Sendling (1931–32), a white office building with a rotunda and high rise apartment blocks in the background. The harmonious integration of his buildings in the surrounding urban landscape proves Vorhoelzer's ability as a city planner. In particular, the appearance of the Arnulfstraße in Munich owns much to the numerous Vorhoelzer buildings. In 1930, Robert Vorhoelzer has been appointed professor at the Technical University of Munich. With the beginning of the Third Reich he lost his chair accused of being an \"architectural bolshevist\", although he resumed working as an architect and, for example, built the church \"Mary Queen of Peace\" in Obergiesing (1936–37). On the eve of WWII, Vorhoelzer emigrated to Turkey, from where he has been expelled in 1941 due to an allegation of espionage for Germany. After the war, he retrieved his chair, but in 1947 he has been suspended again for six months after Nazi allegations concerning the date of the Turkish exile. In the post-war debate on the reconstruction of Munich, Vorhoelzer pointed out that parts of the city had been in need of rehabilitation even before the war. He called for a radical new development plan, in which Flachbauten low-rise and high-rise buildings played an important part. He also had been ahead of his times in his request to discuss the reconstruction in public. In 1952, Vorhoelzer retired and two years later, he died at the age of 70 years after an operation. His last major work was the monumental parish church of St. Joseph in Dingolfing, which had only been completed 1954 to 1956 after his death. For this hall-type church, he applied motives that were already present in the church Giesinger \"Mary Queen of Peace\".


Minoru Suzuki is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who is currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he is a one-time GHC Heavyweight Champion. Suzuki was the co-founder of Pancrase, one of the first mixed martial arts organizations in the world. During the 1990s, he was known as one of the best fighters in the Pancrase promotion and was the second King of Pancrase world champion. Suzuki returned to regular puroresu in 2003, where he has become a perennial top contender for all major Japanese heavyweight championships. He is also known for his time in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he is two-time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion. A MMA pioneer, Suzuki is well noted for his excellence in freestyle wrestling and catch wrestling, and has been praised many times by elite fighters such as Josh Barnett, Bas Rutten, and Ken Shamrock for his outstanding grappling and submission skills.


Marzio Martelli (born 14 December 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. In 1996, Martelli reached the semi-finals of the Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, as a qualifier. En route he defeated second seed Alberto Berasategui. Martelli made the second round of two Grand Slams in 1997, at Wimbledon and the French Open. On the 1997 ATP Tour, he had his best result at the Bologna Outdoor tournament, beating two top 50 players on the way to a semi-final appearance. He was also a member of the Italian Davis Cup team which lost to Spain that year in the quarter-finals of the World Group. In what would be the only Davis Cup rubber he would ever play, Martelli was defeated by Carlos Moyá, but he did manage to win the second set against the Australian Open runner-up. He lost a four set match to Andre Agassi in the opening round of the 1998 Australian Open. In his fourth and final Grand Slam appearance, at the 1998 French Open, the Italian defeated world number 25 Goran Ivanišević in the first round but was unable to progress any further, losing his next match to Filip Dewulf. Also in 1998, Martelli put in another good Bologna Outdoor performance, reaching the quarter-finals.


Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (March 5 [O.S. February 20] 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an American architect, based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Kahn created a style that was monumental and monolithic; his heavy buildings for the most part do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled. Louis Kahn's works are considered as monumental beyond modernism. Famous for his meticulously built works, his provocative proposals that remained unbuilt, and his teaching, Kahn was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal and the RIBA Gold Medal. At the time of his death he was considered by some as \"America's foremost living architect.\"


Arnold Hugh William Beck (7 August 1916 – 11 October 1997) was a British scientist and electrical engineer, a specialist in plasma and microwaves, Professor of Engineering in the University of Cambridge. The younger son of Major Hugh Beck and Diana L. Beck, the young Beck was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and University College, London, where he graduated BSc Eng. His old college elected him to a Fellowship in 1979. In 1937, after graduation, Beck became a research engineer with Henry Hughes & Sons, remaining with the firm until 1941. Then, with the Second World War in progress, he was seconded to the Admiralty Signal Establishment until 1945. From 1947 he was an engineer with Standard Telephones and Cables, ultimately as head of the Valve Research Division. In 1958 he was appointed a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Cambridge, where he led a group researching new ways to generate very high frequency radio waves. In 1964 he was promoted to Reader and in 1966 to Professor of Engineering, succeeding John Baker, Baron Baker. He was also Head of the University's Electrical Division from 1971 to 1981, and when he retired in 1983 he was given the title of Emeritus Professor and was elected a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi, where he had been a Fellow since 1962. In 1947, Beck married Monica, a daughter of S. K. Ratcliffe, but they had no children. In 1959, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.


Sergio Pérez Mendoza (Spanish ; born 26 January 1990) also known as \"Checo\" Pérez, is a Mexican racing driver, currently driving for Force India. Pérez was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy until 2012. He also took his first Formula One podium at the 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix with Sauber, a drive which won him plaudits and fuelled speculation of a move to Ferrari in the near future. However, Pérez later told reporters that he expected to stay with Sauber until at least the end of the 2012 season. Due to his young age and performance, he has been referred to as \"The Mexican Wunderkind\". Pérez joined McLaren for the 2013 season however the car failed to deliver the team a single podium finish. Subsequently for the 2014 season, the team decided to replace Pérez with Danish driver Kevin Magnussen very late into the season almost leaving Pérez without a seat. In December 2013, it was announced that Force India had signed Pérez in a €15 million deal.


Giovanni Stefano Marucelli (1586 - c. 1646) was an Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period, active in Tuscany, including Florence and Pisa. His name is also written as Maruscelli, Maruscielli, or Marscelli. Born in Florence, around 1600 he became a pupil of Andrea Boscoli in Pisa. His masterpiece is the Abraham and the angels (1628) in the apse of the Duomo di Pisa. He also painted an Ascencion for the church of the Sacrament in Pistoia; San Carlo Borromeo before a crucifix in the first altar to the right of the church of San Torpe, Pisa; a Coronation of the Virgin in the left chapel of the church of San Nicola, Pisa; St. George & in St Francis in adoration for the church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta in Lugnano; Madonna del Carmelo with the Bambino and Saints Catherine, Peter & Dominic and a Madonna with child and four saints in the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Uliveto Terme. As an architect, he helped reconstruct the Palazzo dell'Orologio in Pisa.


John \"Jack\" Lawrence Finley (December 22, 1935 – September 19, 2006) was a United States Navy aviator and was selected as an astronaut. He joined the US Navy and underwent flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, which he completed in August 1958. He next served with Air Training Unit 203 at NAS Chase Field, Texas, after which he was transferred as F-8 Crusader pilot to the Fighter Squadron 51 (VF-51) on board the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga. After four years in this assignment, he was assigned to the staff of the Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) as the CVW-5 landing signal officer (LSO), where he was the senior LSO responsible for the safety of carrier landings by the wing's assigned aircraft and pilots. In 1964, Finley attended the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Class 64-A). After graduation, he became an instructor at Edwards. Finley was selected as a USAF astronaut on November 12, 1965, envisaged to fly military Gemini missions in the Manned Orbiting Laboratory project. The project was delayed and eventually terminated. He resigned as astronaut in April 1968 and returned to the operational Navy. Subsequent assignments included a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968. He subsequently served with the \"Sundowners\" of Fighter Squadron 111 (VF-111) at NAS Miramar, California flying the F-4 Phantom II, the \"Evaluators\" of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) at NAS Point Mugu, California as project officer, and Executive Officer and later Commanding Officer of the \"Screaming Eagles\" of VF-51, also flying the F-4. During 1974 and 1975, he served at the Navy Department’s Bureau of Personnel in Washington, after which he was appointed as Commander of Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) in San Francisco (1975–1976); followed by supervisor of the Naval School (1976–1977). On April 16, 1977, he accepted command of the replenishment ship/fleet oiler USS Kawishiwi homeported in Pearl Harbor, a position he held until his retirement in May 1980. In total, he logged over 3000 hours of flying time during his Navy career, and made more than 1000 aircraft carrier landings. After his retirement from military duty in 1980, he spent 15 years with Federal Express Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee, achieving the level of Vice President, Aircraft Line Operations, six years as Executive Vice President at Intrepid Aviation Partners, and two years as COO/CEO Dee Howard Aircraft Maintenance. He died on September 19, 2006 in Memphis, Tennessee after an extended battle with diabetes and cancer. He was survived by his two daughters Vickie and Cindy (from his marriage with Florence Herlihy) and his fiancee Patty Kowalczyk.


Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an Italian American former racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR (the other being Dan Gurney). He also won races in midget cars, and sprint cars.During his career, Andretti won the 1978 Formula One World Championship, four IndyCar titles (three under USAC-sanctioning, one under CART), and IROC VI. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), Daytona 500 (1967) and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti's victory at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits. Andretti had a long career in racing. He was the only person to be named United States Driver of the Year in three decades (1967, 1978, and 1984). He was also one of only three drivers to win races on road courses, paved ovals, and dirt tracks in one season, a feat that he accomplished four times. With his final IndyCar win in April 1993, Andretti became the first driver to win IndyCar races in four different decades and the first to win automobile races of any kind in five. In American popular culture, his name has become synonymous with speed, similar to Barney Oldfield in the early twentieth century and Stirling Moss in the United Kingdom.


James Henry Davidson (June 18, 1858 – August 6, 1918) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Colchester, New York, Davidson attended the public schools and Walton (New York) Academy.He taught school in Delaware and Sullivan Counties, New York.He graduated from the Albany Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the bar the same year.He moved to Green Lake County, Wisconsin, and commenced practice in Princeton, Wisconsin in 1887. Davidson was elected district attorney of Green Lake County in 1888.He served as chairman of the Republican congressional committee for the sixth district of Wisconsin in 1890.He moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin on January 1, 1892, and continued the practice of law.He was appointed city attorney in May 1895 for two years. Davidson was elected representative of Wisconsin's 6th congressional district as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1903).He served as chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (Fifty-sixth through Sixty-first Congresses).From the Fifty-eighth Congress Davidson redistricted and was elected as the representative of Wisconsin's 8th congressional district and was reelected to the four succeeding congresses in the same role. (March 4, 1903 - March 4, 1913) He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress and for election in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress. For the Sixty-fifth Congress Davidson was once again elected as the representative of Wisconsin's 6th district serving from March 4, 1917, until his death in Washington, D.C. on August 6, 1918. He died of heart disease and was interred in Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. On April 5, 1917, he was one of the 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany.


Phoenix Jones (born Benjamin John Francis Fodor, 1988 in Texas) is an American real-life superhero. Initially wearing a ski mask to intervene in a public assault, Fodor later developed a full costume and adopted \"Phoenix Jones\" as a pseudonym. From 2011 until its dissolution in 2014, Jones was the leader of the Rain City Superhero Movement, a Seattle, Washington based citizen patrol group that described itself as a crime prevention brigade. Jones says the best way to prevent getting mistaken for a criminal by the police is to wear a \"supersuit\", although local police have expressed concern that the strange costumes may lead to emergency calls from citizens who mistake the \"superheroes\" for criminals. Jones says that all members of the Rain City Superhero Movement have a military or mixed martial arts background. Jones is also a mixed martial artist signed to World Series of Fighting, where he has fought at two catchweights, which included fighting his older foster brother UFC, Strikeforce and ONE Championship fighter Caros Fodor.