Lloyd Mayer (June 21, 1952 – September 5, 2013) was an American gastroenterologist and immunologist. He was Professor and Co-Director of the Immunology institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, now known as the Lloyd Mayer Immunology Institute. Mayer's research on inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis was among the first to demonstrate the role played by T-regulatory cells in setting the stage for chronic mucosal inflammation (IBD). He was the first to describe the role of T cells in immunoglobulin class switching and to identify a novel T-cell-derived cytokine (446-BCDF) that stimulates antibody secretion by human B cells. Mayer was Professor and Co-Director of the Immunology institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and the Dorothy and David Merksamer Professor of Medicine, as well as Professor of Microbiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Mayer was the author of multiple book chapters and close to 200 peer-reviewed papers. He has been included in New York Magazine’s list of Best Doctors since its inception in the 1990s. Dr. Mayer died following a three year battle with brain cancer (Glioblastoma) in September 2013.


John David Barber (born 22 July 1929 in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire) is a former racing driver from England. Before his racing career he was a fish merchant in London. He first raced a Cooper-JAP and then bought a Formula Two Cooper-Bristol Mk1 which he raced during 1952. Despite winning a minor race at Snetterton, he had little success and finally crashed the car badly towards the end of the season. At the start of 1953, Barber travelled to Argentina to compete in the Formula One Grand Prix there with a works Cooper T23, in which he came in eighth, seven laps down. He also competed in a Formula Libre race in Buenos Aires and finished 12th. Back in England, he raced a Golding-Cooper, which may have been built from the remains of his crashed Mk1 Cooper. While racing this car in the British Empire Trophy on the Isle of Man, he was involved in an accident which killed another driver, James Neilson. Barber sold the car soon after. He next raced in 1955, driving a Jaguar C-type. After his motor racing career came to an end, Barber retired to live on a boat in the Mediterranean.


Jeffrey Marshall \"Jeff\" Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, television and radio personality, author, and voice artist. He is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a comedy troupe which also comprises Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and Ron White. Known for his \"You might be a redneck\" one-liners, Foxworthy has released six major-label comedy albums. His first two albums were each certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Foxworthy has written several books based on his redneck jokes, as well as an autobiography entitled No Shirt, No Shoes... No Problem! Foxworthy has also made several ventures into television, starting in the mid-1990s with his own sitcom called The Jeff Foxworthy Show. He has also appeared alongside Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy in several Blue Collar television specials, most notably Blue Collar TV. Since 2007, he has been the host of the quiz show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on Fox (2007–09 and 2015) and in syndication (2009–11). Foxworthy hosted a nationally syndicated radio show called The Foxworthy Countdown from April 1999 to December 2009. For three seasons, he hosted GSN's The American Bible Challenge.


Liu Wanchuan (also known as Liu Yi Hai) (November 1, 1906 – November 6, 1991) was a master of the Chinese Neijia (internal) martial art Baguazhang. He studied extensively with the great Baguazhang master Ma Gui (1851-1941), and is considered to be one of only two modern masters (the other being Wang Peisheng) to have successfully passed on Ma Gui's unique lineage to current generations. According to Liu Wanchuan, the Baguazhang style that Ma Gui taught him using \"low basin, small steps, and particularly heavy power and strength,\" and for those who practice it regularly \"at the very least it will add ten or twenty years to your life.\" For Baguazhang practitioners, \"the most striking characteristic of Ma Gui Baguazhang is the slow and stable circle-walking that develops lower leg strength, qi, blood flow, and whole body power. The body develops to resemble Dong Haichuan and Ma Gui – a thick trunk and back with well developed dantian, firm wrists and ankles, powerful legs and arms, a rosy complexion, and calm expression.\" The Ma Gui Baguazhang lineage passed down through Liu Wanchuan is now actively taught around the world in China, Japan, Australia, Norway, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States by current Ma Gui Baguazhang lineage holder Li Baohua.


Benjamin Lawrence \"Ben\" Gordon (born 2 March 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for National League North side Boston United. As a youth, he began his career at Leeds United before sealing a move to Chelsea in 2007. He failed to break into the first-team at Chelsea, and instead was sent out on loan to Football League clubs Tranmere Rovers, Scunthorpe United, Peterborough United and Birmingham City. He also experienced two loan spells in the Scottish Premier League with Kilmarnock. Gordon moved to Yeovil Town briefly in 2013 following his release from Chelsea, before spending one season in Scotland with Ross County in the Scottish Premiership. He then joined Colchester United in 2014, where he spent one season. He briefly joined Chester before signing for hometown club Bradford Park Avenue. He has represented England at under-16, under-17 and under-20 levels.


Johnny Mouradian is the Head Coach of Bryn Athyn College's Men's Lacrosse team. Mouradian's National Lacrosse League experience as a General Manager dates back to 1992 with the expansion Buffalo Bandits. With the Bandits from 1992 to 1997 won the league's championship three times (including the inaugural season) and made the playoffs every season. From 1999 to 2000, Mouradian joined the Toronto Rock, where the club won the championship in both seasons. Mouradian is the only General Manager to win five championships. In 2003, Mouradian was named the General Manager and Head Coach to the expansion San Jose Stealth. He served as Head Coach for the 2004 NLL season and the 2005 NLL season. In 2004 he was named National Lacrosse League GM of the Year Award. In February 2008, Mouradian was inducted into the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame. As a player, Mouradian played collegiate lacrosse at Ithaca College, and is a member of the school's Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the 1978 Team Canada, which upset Team USA in the World Lacrosse Championships. After serving as the general manager for the Philadelphia Wings in 2011, Mouradian was named the head coach on July 25, 2011 after former coach John Tucker stepped down.


Max Bulla (September 26, 1905–March 1, 1990) was an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. In the 1931 Tour de France, Bulla won three stages and wore the yellow jersey for one day. He eventually finished the Tour in 15th place overall and won the classification for independent riders. Bulla finished fifth overall and won two stages at the 1935 Vuelta a España. He was born in Vienna and died in Pitten. When Bulla won the second stage of the 1931 Tour de France and took the yellow jersey, the cyclists in the Tour de France were divided into national teams and touriste-routiers. The best cyclists were in the national teams, and the semi-amateurs were touriste-routiers. Bulla was a touriste-routier. In that second stage, the touriste-routiers started 10 minutes later than the national teams. Still, Bulla overtook the national teams, won the stage and took the lead, the only time in history that a touriste-routier was leading the Tour de France.


Gerald M. \"Jerry\" Reaven (born July 28, 1928 in Gary, Indiana) is an American endocrinologist and professor emeritus in medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, United States. Reaven's work on insulin resistance and diabetes with John W. Farquhar goes back at least to 1968. A long-term researcher into diabetes, he achieved significant notability with his 1988 Banting Lecture (organized annually by the American Diabetes Association in memory of Frederick Banting). In his lecture, he propounded the theory that central obesity (male-type or apple-shaped obesity), diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure) have a common cause in insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance. Initially titled \"syndrome X\", the constellation of symptoms is now known as the metabolic syndrome and an object of extensive scientific inquiry, especially given that the combination strongly predisposes for cardiovascular disease. Still, Reaven believes that contemporary criteria are arbitrary and that it may not be necessary to define it as a diagnostic entity more than a pathophysiological parameter. He obtained his academic qualifications at the University of Chicago and did his internship there. After research work in Stanford and two years in the U.S. Army medical corps he completed his residency at the University of Michigan. He then took up a US Public Health Service research post at Stanford, where he progressed to a full professorship in 1970. He led endocrinology and gerontology research. Apart from his work at Stanford he is also Senior Vice President for Research for Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in South San Francisco. He is a member of several research organizations and has received numerous prizes for his research achievements. He is co-author of a popular book on Syndrome X and its repercussions on cardiovascular disease.


Mohd Syamsuri Mustafa (born 6 February 1981) is a Malaysian footballer currently playing as a goalkeeper for Real Mulia F.C. after signed for the club in 2015. The last game he played for Sabah FA was in 2013. Before moved to Pahang FA, he was the primary goalkeeper for Terengganu FA. His biggest achievement with Terengganu was being a runner up in the 2004 Malaysia FA Cup. Terengganu lost 3-0 after conceding three goals in extra time against Perak FA. He was also the primary national goalkeeper during his day with Terengganu, beating many other goalkeepers like Mohd Hamsani Ahmad, Azmin Azram Abdul Aziz and Azizon Abdul Kadir. He was part of the Malaysian squad that faced Brazil and Manchester United F.C. in 2002. He also represented Malaysia in the 2001 and 2003 SEA Games, the 2002 Tiger Cup, the 2004 Tiger Cup, and the 2007 ASEAN Football Championship. During 2003 SEA Games in Vietnam, Syamsuri became the first Malaysian goalkeeper to score a goal in an international match. He scored the long range goal with a drop kick from his own penalty area in Malaysia's 3-4 defeat against the host country, Vietnam. During 2005/06 season Syamsuri was awarded the Favourite Goalkeeper and Favourite Player of the season by the fans in Anugerah Bolasepak Malaysia Coca-Cola FAM 2005-2006. In 2007, Syamsuri did not take part in Malaysia's disastrous 2007 AFC Asian Cup performance. This is due to a ban from participating any football match because of his discipline problems. He has not been called up for the national squad since his last appearance against Sri Lanka on 26 March 2007. For 2009 season, Syamsuri returned to Terengganu but this time with PBDKT T-Team FC. In his return with the national team, he play 68 minutes and conceded three goals against UAE.


Amy Shields (born March 7, 1990 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is currently ranked among the top freestyle unicyclists in the world. She holds five world unicycling titles and in her home continent she holds over 15 North American titles since 2001. In 2002 Shieldz defied all odds at the 13th MONDO Jugglefest in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she attained the Guinness World Record for jump roping on a unicycle with an unprecedented 209 skips in one minute. In 2004, in the 12th unicycling world championship, she became world champion in pairs freestyle (together with Ryan Woessner and in female individual freestyle. In 2006 she again became world champion pairs freestyle with Woessner, and she finished in third place individual freestyle. Shields was the eighth person in the world to pass all ten levels of the International Unicycling Federation. Besides being a world-renowned unicyclist, Shields also is a member of the St. Paul Figure Skating Club, where she has passed both her Senior Moves and Freeskate portions of the United States Figure Skating Association testing program.


Barnabas Bidwell (August 23, 1763 – July 27, 1833) was an author, teacher, and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, active in Massachusetts and Upper Canada. Educated at Yale, he practiced law in western Massachusetts and served as treasurer of Berkshire County. He served in the state legislature as representative and senator, in the United States Congress as spokesman for the administration of Thomas Jefferson where he was effective in defending administration positions and passing important legislation, and was the state attorney general from 1807 to 1810, when exaggerated press accounts of irregularities in the Berkshire County books halted his political career and prompted his flight to Upper Canada. Bidwell later paid the $63.18 plus fines that he attributed to a Berkshire County clerk while he was away on duties in Boston. Nonetheless, the controversy, exaggerated in the press by his Federalist Party enemies effectively scuppered his potential appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Canada he won a seat in the provincial assembly, but was denied on account that he had held office in the United States.


Constance Anne Paraskevin, known as Connie (married name Paraskevin-Young; born July 4, 1961) is a retired American professional track cyclist and speed skater. She is a four times sprint world champion, ten times national sprint champion and an Olympic bronze medalist. Paraskevin began skating at the age of ten, she finished third at two 500m competitions at the world sprint speed skating championships in 1978 but did not medal. At the age of 19, she was a member of the US team at the 1980 Winter Olympics although she did not compete. Four years later she competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics. Paraskevin campaigned to have the women's sprint event included in the 1988 Summer Olympics before going on to win a bronze medal in the event in Seoul. She went on to compete at a further two Summer Olympics before retiring at the end of 1996. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she is the former wife of the Olympic cyclist Roger Young. Paraskevin also coached the speed skater Bonnie Blair when she briefly dabbled in track cycling. She is now a coach and motivational speaker.


Karl Jochen Rindt (18 April 1942 – 5 September 1970) was a German-born racing driver who represented Austria during his career. In 1970, he became the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix. Rindt started motor racing in 1961, switching to single-seaters in 1963, earning success in both Formula Junior and Formula Two. In 1964, Rindt made his debut in Formula One at the Austrian Grand Prix, before securing a full drive with Cooper for 1965. After mixed success with the team, he moved to Brabham for 1968 and then Lotus in 1969. It was at Lotus where Rindt found a competitive car, although he was often concerned about the security of the notoriously unreliable Lotus vehicles. He won his first Formula One race at the 1969 United States Grand Prix. In 1970, Rindt took five victories before his fatal accident, earning enough points to win the Drivers' World Championship. Overall, he competed in 62 Grands Prix, winning six and achieving 13 podium finishes. He was also successful in sports car racing, winning the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans, paired with Masten Gregory in a Ferrari 250LM.


Bobby Lamar Etheridge (November 25, 1941 – September 17, 2015) was a professional baseball third baseman. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants. Etheridge played baseball at Mississippi State University for two seasons before signing with the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1964. After three seasons in the Giants' farm system, he made his major league debut on July 16, 1967 in the first game of a doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs at Candlestick Park as a late inning defensive replacement. The next day, he made his first major league start; with the Giants down 4-1 in the ninth inning, Etheridge hit a two out triple to drive in Bob Schroder and Jim Davenport. With Etheridge representing the tying run at third base, the following batter, Willie McCovey, grounded out to end the game. For the season, Etheridge batted .226 with one home run and fifteen runs batted in for the second place Giants. Though he struggled for playing time behind slugger Jim Ray Hart at third base, Etheridge was named a rookie All-Star by Topps. Etheridge spent all of 1968 with the Pacific Coast League Phoenix Giants, but was back with San Francisco for opening day of the 1969 season. At the end of the season, he was traded to the San Diego Padres with Bob Barton and Ron Herbel for Frank Reberger. After half a season with the Salt Lake City Bees, Etheridge was dealt to the St. Louis Cardinals, and spent the rest of the 1970 season and all of the 1971 season with the Tulsa Oilers. While 1971 was his best season statistically since 1966, he never reached the majors with the Cardinals. He spent 1972 and 1973 in the New York Mets' farm system before retiring.


Dan Teat (born December 9, 1971) is a retired professional lacrosse player and current assistant coach for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League. A native of Brampton, Ontario, Teat's long lacrosse career began when he was five years old in the Brampton Minor Lacrosse Association. He made his debut with the Brampton Jr. Excelsiors of the Ontario Junior A Lacrosse League in 1988, winning the league's rookie of the year award. Teat began playing for the Major Excelsiors of Major Series Lacrosse in 1993, once again winning his league's rookie of the year award. His association with the Excelsiors would last over two decades, and he was a forward on squads that won Mann Cup championships in 1993, 1998, 2002, 2008 and 2009. Teat's 211-game MILL/NLL career began in 1997 with the Rochester Knighthawks, with whom he won the Champion's Cup in his rookie year. He was left unprotected in the 2001 Expansion Draft, and was picked up by the Columbus Landsharks, who promptly dealt him to the Albany Attack for Ken Montour and Mat Giles. He spent the next three years with the Attack in Albany, and moved with them as the club became the San Jose Stealth. Teat then moved on to the Buffalo Bandits, where he played from 2005 to the middle of the 2008 season when he was dealt, along with a second round pick in the 2008 draft and a first round pick in the 2009 draft, to the Edmonton Rush for Mike Accursi. Teat led the Rush in scoring in 2009, and was traded to the Philadelphia Wings for Derek Malawsky after the season. He spent 2010 with the Wings, and signed on with the Boston Blazers prior to the 2011 season. Teat joined the Blazers for the first week of training camp before announcing his retirement from the NLL. Since retiring from the playing turf, Teat has been the head coach of the Jr. A Excelsiors and an assistant with the Major Excelsiors, with whom he won a sixth Mann Cup in 2011. His 25-year association with the Excelsiors ended in 2013. Teat currently serves as an assistant coach with the Bandits.


Earl Fredrick Landgrebe (January 21, 1916 – July 1, 1986) was a politician and businessman. He served as an Indiana state senator and United States representative for the 2nd district. Langrebe was from Valparaiso in Porter County, Indiana. He is remembered unfavorably for his famous line at the Watergate hearings: \"Don’t confuse me with the facts.\" Landgrebe stuck with Richard Nixon until the bitter end. Landgrebe was born in Valparaiso, Indiana in 1916, the son of Edward William Landgrebe and Benna Marie Landgrebe (née Broderman). He attended Wheeler High School near Valparaiso. He married Helen Lucille Field on July 12, 1936. He was elected to the state senate of Indiana in 1959 as a Republican and served there until 1968. In that year, he was elected to represent Indiana's 2nd district in the House of Representatives. On August 5, 1974, Richard Nixon released certain documents revealing his orders to aides to hinder the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation of the Watergate break-in. When Landgrebe was asked on August 7 about the apparently unanimous support for impeachment of Nixon among his Republican colleagues following this disclosure, he said: \"I'm going to stick with my President even if he and I have to be taken out of this building and shot.\" The next day, Richard Nixon announced his resignation. A few months later, Landgrebe was shown the door by his constituents. His re-election bid was derailed by Democrat Floyd Fithian. After his defeat, Earl Landgrebe returned to his home in Valparaiso where he owned and managed Landgrebe Motor Transport Inc., a common carrier and freight hauling company. In February 1980, the Machinist Union was on strike at the Union Rolls Corporation in Valparaiso, Indiana. The former congressman personally confronted picketers with a tractor trailer. On February 13 he completed two trips into the Union Rolls plant to pick up and haul away merchandise. Both times, the Union unsuccessfully tried to prevent his entrance into the plant. On a third trip later that day, he was not so fortunate. Union members surrounded the truck. They swung clubs and broke mirrors and shattered glass. Landgrebe was showered with broken glass. A local sheriff broke up the incident. On July 1, 1986 he died at home of a heart attack. He was 70 years old.


Kepler Orellana (born 8 October 1977) is a male former professional tennis player from Venezuela. Orellana reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on June 7, 1999, when he became World number 304. He primarily played on the Futures circuit and the Challenger circuit. Orellana was a member of the Venezuelan Davis Cup team, having posted a 6–6 record in singles and a 5–2 record in doubles in nine ties played from 1998 to 2004. Orellana represented Venezuela at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, winning the silver medal in the men's singles event while taking the bronze medal in both the men's doubles and men's team events. Orellana also represented Venezuela at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, reaching the third round in the men's singles event and reaching the quarterfinals in the men's doubles event.


Thomas \"Tom\" Albertrani (born March 21, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He began his career as a jockey then spent a number of years as an assistant to trainer Bill Mott. In 1995 Albertrani was hired as an assistant to head trainer Saeed bin Suroor at the prominent international Godolphin Racing stable based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. After working for Godolphin and the Maktoum family's related Darley Racing operations in Dubai, Australia, Japan and at various race tracks throughout Europe, in 2005 Albertrani returned to the New York City area and in addition to conditioning horses for Darley, he opened a public stable to take on horses from various owners. In 2006, Albertrani won the Tampa Bay and Ohio Derbys with Joseph LaCombe's Deputy Glitters and with Darley Racing's colt, Bernardini, he won five consecutive stakes races including the Preakness and Travers Stakes and the Jockey Club Gold Cup. That year he was voted a share of the Red Smith \"Good Guy\" Award with fellow trainer, Kiaran McLaughlin. His brother, Louis Albertrani, is also a Thoroughbred trainer.


Rosemary Jacqueline Shrager (born 21 January 1951) is an English chef, best known for being an haute cuisine teacher on the reality television programme Ladette to Lady, and as a judge on Soapstar Superchef. She also made an appearance on the reality TV series I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!. Other television projects have included Kitchen Showdown with Rosemary Shrager, where she weaned unhealthy fast-food families onto nutritious cuisine. Shrager is an accomplished chef and has worked with fellow Soapstar Superchef judge Jean-Christophe Novelli. The daughter (and third child) of John Worlledge, a company executive, and his wife June Rosemary Twentyman Davis, Shrager was educated at Northwich School of Art and Design and Heatherley School of Fine Art, with the intention of becoming an architect. She married Michael Shrager, a barrister, when she was 22; they had two children, Tom and Kate. After her marriage, she established a catering company.


Paul D. Wohlers is an American diplomat who served from 2011 to 2015 as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia, stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Skopje. Wohlers graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1974 with a B.S. in international affairs. He then served as a Naval Flight Officer, attached to the USS Eisenhower. He earned a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1982. Early in his career with the U.S. State Department, Wohlers held posts at the U.S. embassies in Bucharest, Moscow, and Nicosia. He worked on arms control issues in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and was Desk Officer for Bangladesh in the Bureau of South Asian Affairs. He also served on the Executive Secretariat Staff. Wohlers also served as Director of the Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Skopje, Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff, Senior Watch Officer in the Operations Center, and as Deputy Executive Secretary at the U.S. Department of State. Wolhers was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the sixth U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia, and he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on August 2, 2011. He was sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on August 11, 2011, arrived in Skopje on September 12, and presented his Credentials to the President of the Republic of Macedonia on September 13, 2011. Wohlers is married and has three daughters. His brother Laurence D. Wohlers is the U.S. Ambassador to the Central African Republic.


Jennifer Hohl (born February 3, 1986 in Marbach, St. Gallen) is a retired Swiss professional road cyclist. She represented her nation Switzerland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and later earned three Swiss national championship titles in the women's elite road race (2008, 2009, and 2012). Before retiring to focus primarily on her family life and business career, Hohl rode for three seasons on the Bigla Cycling Team since 2006, followed by her short, annual stints on Germany's Noris Cycling and Italy's Mcipollini–Giordana and Faren–Honda Team. Hohl qualified for the Swiss squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics by receiving one of the nation's three available berths from the UCI World Cup. Passing through the 102.6-km mark, Hohl fell into the ground after crashing her bike in a heavy collision against a small group of riders, and subsequently, abandoned her race before reaching the 3:03-barrier.


Javid Husain, (born 3 March 1944) is a Diplomat, from the Foreign Service of Pakistan, who has had a distinguished career during which he served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to the Netherlands (1992–1995), the Republic of Korea (1995–1997) and Iran (1997–2003). During his tenure at Tehran, he was also the Pakistan Permanent Representative to the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO). In August 1999, Ambassador Javid Husain was promoted to BPS-22, the highest grade in the Pakistan civil service (equivalent in rank to the Foreign Secretary/Vice Foreign Minister). From January 2003 to March 2004, he was the senior most serving officer of the Foreign Service of Pakistan. His last position within the Foreign Service of Pakistan was as the Head/Director-General of the Foreign Service Academy from 2003 to 2004. Currently, Ambassador Javid Husain serves as the President of the Lahore Council for World Affairs. He is also Chairman of the Mumtaz Husain Benevolent Trust.


Eoin G. Harty (born November 23, 1962 in Dublin, Ireland) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer in the United States. From a family of horsemen, Eoin (pronounced Owen) Harty is the fourth generation to be involved in racing. At age sixteen he went to work at the Irish National Stud then a year later moved to the United States, working in the business in California where he still makes his home. Harty worked for notable stables such as that of Allen E. Paulson and eventually became an assistant to trainers John Russell and then Bob Baffert. In 2000, he took charge of the training of two-year-olds for the North American division of Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin Racing. In 2001, Eoin Harty got his big break as he conditioned Godolphin's Tempera who won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and earned American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors. In 2007, Eoin Harty began conditioning horses for WinStar Farm and has met with considerable success, notably winning the 2008 Travers Stakes with Colonel John and the 2009 Dubai World Cup with Well Armed.


Marlene Weingärtner (born 30 January 1980) is a retired professional tennis player from Germany. She is a former top 40 player in both singles and doubles. Weingärtner retired after the US Open 2005 after suffering several first round losses due to ongoing physical problems. The most remarkable moment of Weingärtner's career was her dramatic first round match in the Australian Open 2003 when she defeated the defending champion Jennifer Capriati after seemingly having already lost. Capriati led the encounter at one stage 6–2 4–1, but the determined German fought back and eventually won by a 2–6 7–6(6) 6–4 scoreline. She eventually reached the third round. Her best Grand Slam showings were two fourth round appearances, the first in Melbourne 2002, the latter at the French Open 2004. In that year she also reached her only WTA Tour final in Bali which she lost in straight sets to Svetlana Kuznetsova. Weingärtner made a brief return in July 2008 to play the doubles event of the Gastein Ladies tournament where she partnered Sandra Klemenschits, losing in the quarterfinals to Xu Yifan and Zhang Shuai.


Chen Hsin-An (born July 1, 1980), also known as Sean Chen, is a professional basketball player from Taiwan. He plays small forward in Taiwan, while adjusting to play shooting guard in leagues where there are bigger lineups. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen attended Taipei Physical Education College and helped the Bank of Taiwan (BoT) team win the Taiwan Amateur League (A-League) title in 2000 against the then-dominating Yulon Dinos. He was subsequently recalled by Yulon who initially signed him and allowed him to play for the BoT, and formally became a Yulon Dino. Named the first most valuable player (MVP) for the championship series of the new-born Super Basketball League (SBL), Chen led Yulon to back-to-back championships in 2004 and 2005 as the primary scorer of the team. Having been regarded as one of the most talented players in Asia, Chen was the scoring champion of men's basketball in the 2001 East Asian Games where his team Chinese Taipei won the silver medal. He also participated in the National Basketball Association's (NBA's) preseason games and Summer League in 2002 and 2003 during off season. While helping Yulon repeat the SBL championship, Chen also set out to pursue a new career in the United States, although he did not succeed in getting into the NBA. Instead, he appeared briefly on two teams of the American Basketball Association (ABA) between 2004 and 2005 where he played shooting guard and concentrated on long-range shooting. Since 2005, Chen has suffered from sporadic ligament injuries in his left knee and has therefore missed several opportunities to play abroad or to represent his country in international tournaments. Despite winning his first regular-season MVP award and scoring champion title in the SBL in the 2007-2008 season as he resumed to play for Yulon, Chen failed to lead his team back to championship as he promised. After such disappointment, he announced a decision to seek breakthrough in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) of the People's Republic of China. Despite possible penalties warned by Taiwan's official basketball association, Chen Hsin-An became a player of the CBA's Dongguan Leopards in 2009 until 2011.


Tina Mayolo Pic (born May 9, 1966 in Santa Fe) is an American professional bicycle racer. Pic graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in Finance and Marketing. She subsequently enrolled in a pre-medical programme at the University of Georgia, where she switched sports from triathlon and duathlon to cycling, winning the Collegiate National Championship in 1995 and turning professional the following year. She is a 6-time U.S. national criterium champion (2002–2005, 2007, 2009) and a 4-time USA Cycling National Racing Calendar points champion (2000, 2004–2006). Pic announced her retirement at the end of 2009 season, remaining with the Colavita team for 2010 as a director alongside team-mate Rachel Heal, replacing Iona Wynter. After the original Colavita team dissolved in October 2011, Pic joined the refounded Colavita-espnW team for 2012 as a director alongside Wynter. She subsequently made a comeback to racing for the team during the summer of 2012. For the 2014 season, she was the on-road directeur sportif of DNA Cycling p/b K4. In January 2015 she was announced by Pepper Palace p/b The Happy Tooth as part of their squad for the 2015 season.


Raymond Bernard Hamrick [Handsome Ray] (August 1, 1921 – June 9, 2009) was an infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1943 through 1944 for the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League. Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 165 lb., Hamrick batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Fast and steady, Hamrick was one of many ballplayers who interrupted their careers to serve during World War II. Hamrick started his professional baseball career as a shortstop and pitcher in 1939, playing for the Nashville, Charleston and Americus Minor league teams. During his stay at Americus, he made the All-Star team in 1941 and batted over a .300 batting average for most of the year. His most productive season came in 1943, when he hit 145 in 460 at-bats with Nashville for a .310 average. Hamrick joined the Philadelphia Phillies in 1943. The following season, he began spring training with the team in Wilmington, Delaware, because the war kept the teams out of Florida for camp due to the submarine threat. Hamrick left spring training as Philadelphia’s starting shortstop, but he left for the military service after appearing in 74 games. With the end of the war, Hamrick rejoined the team (by then the Phillies) in 1946, but the competition for a roster spot was now overwhelming as Skeeter Newsome became the everyday shortstop. In a two-season majors career, Hamrick was a .204 hitter (92-for-452) in 118 games, including 34 runs, 32 RBI, 13 doubles, two triples, one home run and one stolen base. He made 74 appearances at shortstop (86) and second base (31), and posted a collective .946 fielding percentage. After that, Hamrick hit .266 (92-for-346) for the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League in 1946, his last professional baseball season. Hamrick died in his homeland of Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 87.


Mava Lee Thomas (September 1, 1929 – August 6, 2013) was an infielder and catcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. Born in Ocala, Florida, Mava Lee Thomas was the only player in AAGPBL history whose father played in Major League Baseball. Her father, Herb Thomas, was a center fielder/second baseman for the Boston Braves and New York Giants in parts of three seasons spanning 1924–1927. In the fourth grade, Thomas learned her baseball skills from her father, who taught her the importance of competition, practice, adversity, and teamwork. ′′Tommie′′, as her father dubbed her, attended several schools while growing up in Florida because Mr. Thomas worked as a coach and scout for the Giants organization. She heard about the AAGPBL while attending Ocala High School, where she played for the VFW team. The AAGPBL operated from 1943 to 1954 and gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball and to play it at a level never before attained. The league was conceived by Philip K. Wrigley during World War II, under the idea of initiating the innovative project to maintain interest in baseball as the military draft was depleting major-league rosters of first-line players and attendance declined at ballparks around the country. After graduating from school, Thomas attended an AAGPBL tryout at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The switch-hitter made the grade and joined the Fort Wayne Daisies for the 1951 season. Thomas earned $75 per week plus expenses with the Daisies, which was a considerable amount of money in those days, even though the girls played six nights a week and a doubleheader on Sundays. She was mostly used as a backup for Mary Rountree (C) and Jean Weaver (3B). At the end of the season, Thomas became concerned that poor attendance indicated an uncertain future for the league. Then, she was determined to continue playing ball and went into the US Navy to play in the female softball team, serving also as a member of the Armed Forces Recreation Society. After discharge in 1953, she played exhibition games for the Hagerstown Mollies of Maryland during two years. She got married in 1953, but the marriage lasted only two years. Thomas also finished a degree in recreation at the University of Florida and went to work for the Ocala Parks and Recreation Department in 1984, helping to establish such events as Light Up Ocala and the annual fishing derby at Tuscawilla Park, before retiring in 1995. In 1988, Thomas received further recognition when she became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. In addition, Thomas and her father became the only father/daughter combination to be inducted into the Florida Baseball Hall of Fame. The AAGPBL folded in 1954. Lady pitchers, catchers, and fielders drifted into obscurity until 1992 when the film A League of Their Own was released. The film kindled a renewed interest in these trailblazers who have their own places in American history. While the film does not use real names, filmmaker Penny Marshall seemed to be aiming for realism, as her work includes fake newsreel footage and pseudo-documentary present day scenes at the beginning and end of the fictitious story. Since then, Thomas and her teammates have become the darlings of the media. They have been honored several times for their significant contributions, responding to request for autographs and corresponding with young athletes interested in hearing of their days in the AAGPBL. Thomas felt proud to be the only girl ball player with a major league father. She remembered him into playing an old-timers game in 1988 when he was 87 years old. He had spike scars on his arm from Ty Cobb, she explained in an interview. Tommie Thomas died in 2013 in her homeland of Ocala, Florida at the age of 83, following complication from Alzheimer's disease.


Bill Holland (December 18, 1907 – May 19, 1984) was an American race car driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1949 and finished second in 1947, 1948 and 1950. He also was runner up in the 1947 AAA National Championship. He nearly won the 1947 Indianapolis 500 as a rookie, but slowed and allowed teammate Mauri Rose to pass him seven laps from the end, mistakenly believing that Rose was a lap down. On November 14, 1951, Holland was suspended from AAA Indy Car racing for one year after competing in a three-lap Lion's Charity race at Opa-locka, Florida which was a NASCAR event. The American Automobile Association, at the time the sanctioning body for Indycar races, had a strict rule forbidding its drivers from participating in any races other than their own, and would blacklist violators. Holland is believed to have got over 40 sprint car feature wins and 150 podiums. He won the first ever automobile race at Selinsgrove Speedway (Selinsgrove, PA) on July 20, 1946. Holland died from complications of Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his wife Myra. He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2005.


Jeroen Piket (born 27 January 1969 in Leiden, The Netherlands) is a retired Dutch chess player who earned the Grandmaster title in 1989. He won the Dutch Chess Championship in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1994. Other notable results include a second place at the Hoogovens tournament 1997. He drew a match against Anatoly Karpov held 21 February to 2 March 1999 in Monaco, by the score 4–4 (all eight games were drawn). The following year he won an internet tournament organised by kasparovchess.com, beating Garry Kasparov in the final. Piket won the Vlissingen Open in 2001, but retired from chess in the same year to become the personal secretary of businessman Joop van Oosterom. A few years later, in 2005, Van Oosterom won the Correspondence chess World Championship, causing Tim Krabbé to write: \"The Turk was operated by William Schlumberger, Mephisto was operated by Isidore Gunsberg, Ajeeb was operated by Harry Pillsbury and Joop van Oosterom is operated by Jeroen Piket.\"


Joe Casely-Hayford, OBE (born in Kent, England, 24 May 1956), is a British fashion designer. He has established his international reputation as a British designer of men's and women’s clothing since the mid-1980s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the fashion industry, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, published on 16 June 2007. In 2008 The Black Power List named the Casely-Hayford family the most influential black family in the UK.In 2006 his sister, Margaret became the General Counsel, Director of Legal Services at The John Lewis Partnership,a company with 70,000 employees.He is the brother of cultural historian Gus Casely-Hayford and Peter Casely-Hayford, whose film company, Twenty Twenty has made some of the UK's most popular television programmes, such as The Choir and Brat Camp. The grandson and namesake of the eminent lawyer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford, MBE, whose 1911 novel Ethiopia Unbound greatly influenced Pan-African politics and the leading civil rights activists of its time.


Wilson Zhang (born 23 September 1979 in Anda, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China) is a Canadian table tennis player of Chinese origin. As of January 2010, Zhang is ranked no. 140 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). He is right-handed, and uses the shakehand grip. In 2003, Zhang moved with his family to Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, where he worked as a full-time table tennis coach at the Bridgeport Sports Club. He also met and married a Canadian and now has two babies, and finally resided to Ottawa, Ontario, where he obtained a citizenship four years later, and eventually trained for the National Table Tennis Centre under his personal and head coach Marles Martins. Zhang also reigned as Canadian table tennis champion for three straight years (2005–2007), finished second at the 2007 U.S. Open in Las Vegas, Nevada, and most significantly, attained the championship title at the North American Tour finals. Zhang earned a spot on the Canadian team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing second over his teammate Pradeeban Peter-Paul in the men's singles from the North American Qualification Tournament in Vancouver. Zhang joined with his fellow players Peter-Paul and Qiang Zhen for the inaugural men's team event. His team placed fourth in the preliminary pool round, against Germany, Croatia, and Singapore, receiving a total of three points and three straight losses. In the men's singles, Zhang defeated Trinidad and Tobago's Dexter St. Louis in the preliminary round, before losing his next match to Japan's Seiya Kishikawa, attaining a set score of 2–4.


Andrew Lawrence Somers (March 21, 1895 – April 6, 1949) was born in Brooklyn, New York.He attended St. Teresa’s Academy in Brooklyn, Brooklyn College Preparatory School, Manhattan College, and New York University in New York City.He engaged in dry color and chemical business.During World War I, he enlisted on July 18, 1917, as a hospital apprentice, second class, in the United States Naval Reserve Force.Subsequently he served as ensign in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and was then appointed a naval aviator on September 17, 1918. He proceeded to foreign service on September 30, 1918, and served there until honorably discharged March 4, 1919.He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1928 and was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in St. Albans, Queens, New York, April 6, 1949.


Tari L. Phillips (born March 6, 1969) is an American professional women's basketball player. She currently plays with Acer ERG Priolo, an Italian A1 team based in Priolo Gargallo, Sicily. Her cousin Tayyiba Haneef-Park plays for USA Volleyball. Born in Orlando, Florida, Phillips attended the University of Georgia during her first three college years, and helped its Lady Bulldogs team to the NCAA Regional Finals in 1987 and 1988. She transferred during her senior year to the University of Central Florida, where she graduated in 1991. She played for the Seattle Reign and the Colorado Xplosion in the American Basketball League (1996-1998). She made the ABL's Western Conference All-Star team in both 1997 and 1998, and was named the MVP of the 1997 All-Star Game. After the ABL abruptly folded, Phillip was selected by her hometown team, the Orlando Miracle in the first round (eighth overall) of the WNBA Draft on May 4, 1999. After her WNBA rookie season in 1999, she was selected by the Portland Fire in the WNBA's Expansion Draft in December 1999, but she was later traded to the New York Liberty just prior to the start of the WNBA's 2000 season. She played with the Liberty from 2000 to 2004. After the 2004 season ended, she became an unrestricted free agent and signed with the Houston Comets for the 2005 WNBA season. The Comets waived Phillips July 2, 2007. Phillips won a Gold Medal with USA Basketball during the Basketball World Championship in 2002. She was named to the team as a replacement for the injured Tina Thompson.


James MacLellan Brown (c.1886-1967) was the City Architect of Dundee, Scotland, known for remodelling of Sir John James Burnet's designs (1931) and designing the Mills Observatory (1935). Brown was the assistant to the City Architect, James Thomson, who had originally planned an immense Beaux-Arts style Civic Centre covering the centre of Dundee. When the First World War intervened, his plans were scaled down and he retired in 1924. Thomson's ideas for extending City Square were developed again in 1924, when the École des Beaux-Arts-trained Burnet was commissioned to produce designs for the east and west wings to City Square. Thomson died in 1927, and James MacLellan Brown, as Depute City Architect, remodelled Burnet's designs in 1931 and produced the scheme that was built. Later Brown collaborated with Professor Ralph Allen Sampson, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, in designing Mills Observatory, a much more modern building than the one originally planned before the war.


Karlos Arguiñano Urkiola (born September 6, 1948) is a Spanish chef, popular TV presenter and producer, and Basque pelota businessman. His devotion to cuisine started when he was a child and helped at home because he was the eldest of four siblings and had a disabled mother. Before beginning his training in the field of cooking, he worked for CAF, a rail car manufacturer at Beasain. When he was 17 years old, he decided to take part in a course at the Escuela de Hostelería del Hotel Euromar where, over three years, he was taught the main principles of cooking by Luis Irizar. There he met some people who have gone on to achieve great success in the world of cuisine, such as Pedro Subijana and Ramón Roteta. Arguiñano has had a hotel-restaurant on the beach at Zarautz since 1978. He was one of the first TV chefs in Spain with his cooking show, La cocina de Karlos Arguiñano , first on Euskal Telebista, later on Televisión Española, Argentine ATC, back in Spain with Telecinco and, since September 2010 on Antena 3.Arguiñano combines recipe preparation with tips, jokes and amateur singing.His catchphrase is Rico, rico y con fundamento (\"Tasty, tasty and with nutritional value\") and his trademark is the use of parsley.His sister Eva Arguiñano has also appeared on TV, usually in the dessert section of the show. He has taken over control of the show through his production company Asegarce. Asegarce also controls a big part of the professional Basque pelota business and is one of the owning companies of the TV channel La Sexta.


Larry C. Price (born February 23, 1954) is an American photojournalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography, recognizing images from Liberia published by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In 1985 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for images from war-torn Angola and El Salvador published by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Price received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. He was a member of The Daily Texan staff during his senior year in college. His journalism career has spanned three decades. After college, he joined the El Paso Times staff. He then worked on the news staff at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. During that time [1979-1983], Price also was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1983, he left Fort Worth for The Philadelphia Inquirer to work as a photojournalist and later director of photography. After leaving the Inquirer in 1989, Price worked on contract for National Geographic before returning to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as an assistant managing editor in 1991. In 1996 Price joined The Baltimore Sun photography staff. He was named assistant managing editor for photography for The Denver Post in 2000 where he remained until mid-2006. He is currently an editor for Cox Media Group in Ohio, CMG Ohio operates a converged newsroom that combines the Dayton Daily News, WHIO TV and WHIO Radio. Price also has received a Best Photographic Reporting award from the Overseas Press Club and has been honored at the World Press Photo Awards. His images have appeared in Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, U.S. News & World Report, Audubon and other national publications. Price has contributed to 12 \"Day in the Life\" photography books including the acclaimed A Day in the Life of America, A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union and A Day in the Life of Africa.


David Michael Kennedy (born August 16, 1950) is a photographer living and working in New Mexico. His career spans more than 35 years and includes an 18-year stint in New York City where he was known as a specialist in photography for the advertising and music industries, producing album covers and editorial spreads for artists that include Muddy Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Blondie and Bob Dylan.Although he has won numerous awards for his photography, he stated in early 2010 that he had not entered competitions since 1992. In 1983 Kennedy photographed the cover of the Loverboy album Get Lucky, the cover depicts the posterior of someone wearing tight red leather pants, with a man's arm and hand in the foreground with index and middle finger crossed. The model wearing the leather pants was Kennedy's 13-year-old daughter, Tymara Kennedy. The photo credit on the album stated \"Bottom by: T.K.\", which was sometimes interpreted as the publishing shorthand for the term to come. In 1986 Kennedy moved to northern New Mexico and began documenting the Western landscape and Native American culture, and became involved in Native American causes. His photographs of Native Americans and their culture have been exhibited in Westchester. William Zimmer writes that \"the respectful Indian pictures bring to light aspects of [Native American] culture that are often hidden\".His work is in The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery


(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Pascual and the second or maternal family name is Lus.) Camilo Alberto Pascual Lus (born January 20, 1934) is a Cuban former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. During an 18-year baseball career (1954–71), he played for the Washington Senators (which became the Minnesota Twins in 1961), the second Washington Senators franchise, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Cleveland Indians. He was also known by the nicknames \"Camile\" and \"Little Potato.\" Pascual's best pitches were his fastball and devastating overhand curveball, described by Ted Williams as the \"most feared curveball in the American League for 18 years\". His curveball has been rated in the to 10 of all-time. Over his career, he compiled 174 wins, 2,167 strikeouts, and a 3.63 earned run average. He was elected to the American League All-Star team 5 times (from 1959 to 1962, and in 1964). In the second 1961 All-Star Game, he pitched three hitless innings and struck out four.


John Henry Augustin Prichard, later Riseley-Prichard, (17 January 1924 in Hereford - 8 July 1993 in Thailand ) was a British insurance broker and racing driver. After getting a taste for motorsport in a road-going Riley, he bought a second-hand Connaught Type A from the Rob Walker Racing Team. Using this vehicle he participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix: the British Grand Prix on 17 July 1954. He spun out of the race, scoring no championship points. In addition to this he competed in a number of non-Championship Formula One and Formula Libre races, including a victory in the 1954 I Cornwall MRC Formula 1 Race. Riseley-Prichard shared an Aston Martin in the infamous 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans race with a young Tony Brooks, but after the trauma of this event retired from race driving. Later in the same year he let Brooks take the wheel of his Connaught, giving the future Vanwall and Ferrari star his first big break. Later in life John Riseley-Prichard became the centre of a child pornography scandal, and he emigrated to Thailand. After a lengthy illness he died in Baan Kai Thuan, a remote village approximately 200 kilometres (120 miles) inland of Bangkok.


Johann Friedrich Weitsch, called \"Pacha Weitsch\", from his fancy for Oriental costumes, was born at Hessendamm, near Wolfenbüttel, Niedersachsen, Germany, in 1723. He was the son of a house-tiler, but from his youth had a bent towards art. His having become a sergeant in the army, his colonel once called upon him to copy a few landscapes, which, though his first attempts at painting, were so successful that he thenceforth devoted himself exclusively to art. He copied pictures in the gallery at Salzdahlen, and was then appointed to a post in the porcelain factory at Furstenberg. He pursued oil painting at the same time, and studied from nature and the old Dutch masters. His works were at first small landscapes and views of towns, but later on he took to woody scenes, and especially oak forests with cattle. In 1788 he became inspector of the Salzdahlen gallery, and died in that place in 1803. Four landscapes by him are in the gallery at Brunswick. His son was the painter Friedrich Georg Weitsch.


Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 – December 15, 1912) was an American politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War. After assisting Horace Greeley as editor of the powerful Republican newspaper, the New York Tribune, Reid purchased the paper after Greeley's death in 1872 and controlled it until his own death. The circulation grew to about 60,000 a day, but the weekly edition became less important. He invested heavily in new technology, such as the Hoe rotary printing press and the linotype machine, but bitterly fought against the unionized workers for control of his shop. As a famous voice of the Republican Party, he was honored with appointments as ambassador to France (1889) and Great Britain (1905), as well as numerous other honorific positions. In 1898 President William McKinley appointed him to the American commission that negotiated peace with Spain after the Spanish–American War.


Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy, MBE (born 23 March 1976), known as Chris Hoy, is a British racing driver and former track cyclist who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Hoy is eleven-times a world champion and six-times an Olympic champion. With a total of seven Olympic medals, six gold and one silver, Hoy is the second most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time. With his three gold medals in 2008 Summer Olympics, Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first British athlete to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games since Henry Taylor in 1908, and the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time. After winning a further two gold medals (in the keirin and team sprint) at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Hoy has won more Olympic gold medals (six) than any other British athlete along with Jason Kenny, and more total medals (seven) than any except fellow cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins.


Filippo Lauri (25 August 1623 - 12 December 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. Born and active in Rome, his story was featured in the biographies by Baldinucci. He first studied with his father, Balthasar Lauwers (a Flemish landscape painter (Italianized as Lauri), and then with his elder brother, Francesco Lauri. Afterwards, he worked under his brother-in-law, Angelo Caroselli. Filippo’s brother had been a pupil of Andrea Sacchi. In 1654 Lauri became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and later became the Principe or director of the academy. He painted along with Filippo Gagliardi a canvas depiction of Celebrations for Christine of Sweden at Palazzo Barberini (now at Palazzo Braschi), which demonstrates the exubertant pagentry common in their time. Filippo's father had emigrated from Antwerp, and was a pupil of Paul Bril. Francesco's oldest brother Francesco Lauri was also a painter and a pupil of Andrea Sacchi, who died young. Fillipo often painted small figures for the landscapes of Claude Lorraine. He was prolific. He employed many engravers.


Henry Lizardlover (born March 27, 1954 as Henry Schifberg) is a herpetoculturist, writer, and photographer who changed his last name to \"Lizardlover\" in 1986 as a symbol of his appreciation for the reptiles. Living nearby Hollywood, California, Lizardlover shares his home with a group of between 30 and 50 different lizards, most of which are iguanas. Since 1982, Lizardlover has been photographing \"family photos\" of his lizards in humorous human-like poses. Photo calendars and cards are published featuring the lizards. Lizardlover has made appearances on Animal Planet, Now with Tom Brokaw, the short-lived late-night program The Chevy Chase Show, and what is described as \"Univision's version of Ripley's Believe it or Not\".  Lizardlover and his iguanas are featured in a 2006 Ripley's Believe It or Not! book titled Ripley's Believe It or Not! Expect...The Unexpected. (ISBN 1-893951-12-X) He was a contestant in a One-on-One round of a 1990 episode of To Tell The Truth, and was a contestant on the 2006 revival of I've Got A Secret. Lizardlover authored his first guide to reptile care, the Iguana Owner's Manual in 1992; it is now in its third edition. He and his reptile family were followed extensively in the 2002 Nature documentary film \"Reptiles: Snakes and Lizards\". Lizardlover continues to write and contribute to books on the care of reptiles.


Joe Henry Engle (born August 26, 1932), (Maj Gen, USAF, Ret.), is an American pilot who served in the United States Air Force, test pilot for the North American X-15 program, aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. As of 2016, he is the only surviving X-15 pilot. Engle test-flew the joint NASA-Air Force X-15 rocket airplane. During the course of testing, Engle earned his USAF Astronaut Wings, a Distinguished Flying Cross and other awards. Engle was selected by NASA in 1966 for the Apollo program, and was originally scheduled to land on the Moon as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 17, but was bumped when later flights were cancelled, so that geologist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt could fly. He subsequently became one of the first astronauts in the Space Shuttle program, having flight tested the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1977. He was Commander of the second orbital test flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981.


Nathaniel Jocelyn (January 31, 1796 - January 13, 1881) was an American painter. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of a clockmaker and engraver. He trained as a watchmaker, later taking up drawing, engraving, and oil painting. He studied engraving with George Munger around 1813; they published at least one print together under the name Jocelin & Munger. From 1820 to 1822 he was in Savannah, Georgia, and established himself as a portrait painter on his return to New Haven. He had a portrait studio in New York City from 1843 to 1847. His New Haven studio burned in 1849, and he gave up painting for engraving, initially with the firm of Toppan, Carpenter & Co. He went on to found the National Bank Note Engraving Company. After Trumbull, he is represented by more portraits in the Yale collection than any other artist. In 1827 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1846. He painted portraits of Joseph Cinqué and of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison declared that Jocelyn's portrait was a \"tolerable likeness,\" but remarked that \"those who imagine that I am a monster, on seeing it will... deny its accuracy, seeing no horns about the head.\" Jocelyn retired in 1864 and died at New Haven.


Steven Michael Green (born October 4, 1953) is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'7\" (2.00 m) and 220 lb (100 kg) small forward and played collegiately at Indiana University where he was first-year head coach Bob Knight's first recruit in 1971. He attended Silver Creek High School in Sellersburg, Indiana. Green was selected by both the Utah Stars in the 1975 ABA Draft and by the Chicago Bulls with the 12th pick of the second round in the 1975 NBA Draft. In 1975-76 he played with the Utah Stars and Spirits of St. Louis, with combined averages of 9.1 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. His NBA career consisted of three seasons with the Indiana Pacers from 1976 to 1979. He holds combined ABA/NBA career averages of 4.6 points and 2.0 rebounds per game. After his NBA career he played for one season in Italy. He entered at the Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1980 and has been practicing dentistry since 1984. His practice is currently located in Fishers, Indiana.


Joseph Anschutz, or Joseph Anshutz, was an American architect who designed schools in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. He designed approximately 75 schools, some nearly identical. Works designed or co-designed by Anschutz that have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places include: listed as Joseph Anschutz or Joseph W. Anschutz \n* George W. Childs School, 1501 S. 17th St., Philadelphia PA \n* Watson Comly School, 13250 Trevose Rd., Philadelphia PA \n* Francis M. Drexel School, 1800 S. Sixteenth St., Philadelphia PA \n* William Levering School, 5938 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia PA \n* James Martin School, 3340 Richmond St., Philadelphia PA \n* Philip H. Sheridan School, 800–818 E. Ontario St., Philadelphia PAlisted as Joseph W. Anshutz or J.W. Anshutz or Joseph Anshutz \n* Germantown Grammar School (Boundary Increase), 45 W. Haines St., Philadelphia PA \n* Francis Scott Key School, 2226–2250 S. Eighth St., Philadelphia PA \n* David Landreth School, 1201 S. Twenty-third St., Philadelphia PAThe Landreth School has been redeveloped. \n* Thomas Powers School, Frankford Ave. and Somerset St., Philadelphia PA An early 20th-century article that uses the \"Anshutz\" spelling says he also co-designed Philadelphia's Central High School.


Oliviero Gatti (1579–1648), an Italian painter and engraver, was a native of Parma. He was a scholar of Giovanni Lodovico Valesio, and, from the resemblance of his style, although greatly inferior, to that of Agostino Carracci, was probably instructed in engraving by that master. His works as a painter are little known; but he engraved several plates, some of which are after his own designs, which possess considerable merit. He was received into the Academy at Bologna in 1626, and was working in that city up to 1648. The following prints are by him: \n* St. Francis Xavier kneeling on the sea-shore, and taking up a Crucifix, which is floating on the water; after his own design.  \n* The Virgin caressing the Infant Christ; after Lorenzo Garbieri.  \n* St. Jerome; after Agostino Carracci. 1602.  \n* St. Roch. 1605.  \n* An emblematical subject, representing an Armorial Bearing, supported by two River Gods, with an armed figure, standing alone, surrounded by Jupiter, Hercules, Neptune, Apollo, and Minerva; after L. Carracci.  \n* A set of four small plates, representing the Deity forming the World, the Creation of Adam, the Sacrifice of Abraham, and Judith with the Head of Holofernes; after Pordenone.  \n* A drawing-book; after the designs of Guercino.


João Roque (born July 22, 1971) is a former featherweight Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) black belt World Champion and a retired Angola mixed martial artist. He competed in the Featherweight division in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). His first coaches of BJJ were Marcio Pinheiro and Gerson Velasco, and he stayed under their guidance until he was a purple belt. It was under prestigious Osvaldo Alves, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Red Belt and a legend in the sport of BJJ, that Joao Roque graduated to brown belt. When Master Oswaldo had to move to Manaus Roque joined André Pederneiras, right at the start of the Nova União. Joao Roque began his MMA career in 1996 in the United States (Oklahoma) with a win by armbar. He retired in 2005 in the Japan (Tokyo) with a loss by decision. Today he lives in Brasília, capital of Brazil. Roque went on to form one of the strongest teams in that state and his gym \"Clube Vizinhança\" still runs today.


Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. (May 5, 1919 – June 11, 2011), was a United States representative from Texas' 13th congressional district. Born in Archer City in Archer County, a part of the Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area, Purcell attended public schools and received his Bachelor of Science from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in 1946, and his LL.B. in 1949 from Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas. Purcell served in the United States Army during World War II from 1941 to 1946 and served thereafter in the United States Army Reserve.He served as judge of the Eighty-ninth Judicial District Court of Texas from 1955 to 1962. He was a delegate to the 1960 and 1964 Democratic national conventions, which met in Los Angeles and Atlantic City, New Jersey, respectively to nominate the Kennedy-Johnson and the Johnson-Humphrey tickets, both of which prevailed in Texas. Purcell was elected to the Eighty-seventh Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of fellow Democrat, Representative Frank N. Ikard. He was reelected to the five succeeding congresses (January 27, 1962 – January 3, 1973). In 1966, when John Tower won his second term as U. S. senator, Purcell defeated the Republican Dillard Carlisle \"Bunny\" Norwood (1913-1993) of Wichita Falls. On November 22, 1963, Purcell was riding in the motorcade's third vehicle behind U.S. President Kennedy during the assassination in Dallas, Texas. Although Texas gained a seat as a result of the 1970 Census, Purcell's 13th District was dismantled, and his home in Wichita Falls was merged with the Panhandle-based 18th District of Republican Bob Price for the 1972 elections. The new district was numerically Purcell's district—the 13th—but was geographically more Price's district. Forced to run in territory that he did not know and that did not know him (the reconfigured district was more than two-thirds new to him), Purcell was defeated by nine points. In 1993, House bill HR 2292 was passed designating the federal building in Wichita Falls as the Graham B. Purcell Jr. Post Office and Federal Building. Purcell resided in Wichita Falls until his death at the age of ninety-two.


Daniel Christopher Burbank (born July 27, 1961) is an American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick. Burbank was born in Manchester, Connecticut, and raised in Tolland, Connecticut, where he graduated from Tolland High School. He attended Fairfield University his freshman year before transferring to the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he earned his commission in 1985. In 1987, he went through flight training and became an instructor pilot, serving at various Coast Guard stations at Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, and Coast Guard Air Station Sitka. Burbank is listed as a member of the astronaut band \"Max Q\", and a former member of The Idlers. He has a master's degree in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He is a licensed amateur radio operator (ham) with Technician License KC5ZSX.


Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedy writer, and television producer. He is best known for hosting several late-night talk shows; since 2010 he has hosted Conan on the cable channel TBS. O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was raised in an Irish Catholic family. He served as president of The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, and was a writer for the sketch comedy series Not Necessarily the News. After writing for several comedy shows in Los Angeles, he joined the writing staff of Saturday Night Live. O'Brien was a writer and producer for The Simpsons for two seasons until he was commissioned by NBC to take over David Letterman's position as host of Late Night in 1993. A virtual unknown to the public, O'Brien's initial Late Night tenure received unfavorable reviews and remained on a multiweek renewal cycle during its early years. The show generally improved over time and was highly regarded by the time of his departure in 2009. Afterwards, O'Brien relocated from New York to Los Angeles to host his own incarnation of The Tonight Show for seven months until network politics prompted a host change in 2010. Known for his spontaneous hosting style, which has been characterized as \"awkward, self-deprecating humor\", O'Brien's late-night programs combine the \"lewd and wacky with more elegant, narrative-driven short films (remotes)\". He has hosted Conan since 2010 and has also hosted such events as the Emmy Awards and Christmas in Washington. O'Brien has been the subject of a documentary, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011), and has also hosted a 32-city live comedy tour. With the retirement of David Letterman on May 20, 2015, O'Brien became the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, at 22 years.


Mario Balassi (1604–1667) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Florence and Rome. He began training with Jacopo Ligozzi, then with Matteo Rosselli, and finally with Domenico Passignano who he accompanied him to Rome to work under the papacy of Pope Urban VIII Here he was patronized by Ottavio Piccolomini and accompanied him to Vienna, where he painted a portrait of the Emperor Ferdinand III. He was commissioned by Taddeo Barberini to paint a Transfiguration (copy of Raphael) now found in the church of the Cappuccini of Rome. Returning to Florence, he painted a St. Francis for the Compagnia delle Stimmate. He also painted a Noli me tangere for the convent of the Maddalena. On his return to Italy he worked in Prato, Florence, and Empoli. For the church of Sant' Agostino, in Prato, he painted a picture of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, and for the Society of the Stigmata in Florence, a St. Francis. In the Vienna Gallery there is a Madonna and Child painted on stone. Among his pupils was Andrea Scacciati.


Dewitt Jones is an American professional photographer who is known for his work as a freelance photojournalist for National Geographic and his column in Outdoor Photographer Magazine. His daily photographic posts on Facebook are seen by thousands of viewers. As a motion picture director, he had two films nominated for Academy Awards (Climb - Best Live Action Short Film and John Muir's High Sierra - Best Short Subject Documentary) before he was thirty: Climb (1974) and John Muir's High Sierra (1974). He has published nine books, including California!, Visions of Wilderness, What The Road Passes By, Robert Frost; A Tribute To The Source, Canyon Country and John Muir’s High Sierra. One of his most recent books, The Nature of Leadership was created in collaboration with Stephen R. Covey (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People). Dewitt's column, Basic Jones, has appeared in Outdoor Photographer magazine for over 18 years. In it, Dewitt explores the spiritual side of photography. Dewitt is also recognized as motivational speaker. Every year he speaks to corporations and organizations throughout the world about creativity and vision. He holds a CPAE award from the National Speakers Association. Dewitt has also produced a number of training films including \"Celebrate What's Right with the World\" and \"Everyday Creativity\". Dewitt is the recipient of the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography which honors \"superlative photography that has been used to further conservation causes\". He is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Drama and holds a Masters Degree in film making from UCLA.


Tony Martin (born 23 April 1985) is a German professional road bicycle racer riding for the UCI ProTeam Etixx–Quick-Step. Martin is known as a time trial specialist, and is a four-time world champion in the discipline, having won the title in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016. He also won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing runner-up to Sir Bradley Wiggins in the event. Martin has also been a part of three world championship-winning team time trial squads with Etixx–Quick-Step (formerly Omega Pharma-Quick-Step), in 2012, 2013 and 2016. Martin has also won five Grand Tour individual time trial stages; three at the Tour de France in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and two at the Vuelta a España in 2011 and the 2014. He has also won several stage races, including the Eneco Tour (2010), Paris–Nice (2011) and the first two editions of the Tour of Beijing in 2011 and 2012.


Alexander Huzman (born 10 April 1962 in Zhytomyr, Soviet Union) is an Israeli (formerly Soviet) chess Grandmaster and trainer. He played in several Ukrainian championships. In 1985, he took 6th in Uzhgorod. In 1986, he tied for 4-5th in Kiev. In 1987, he took 6th in Nikolaev. In 1989, he tied for 8-9th in Kherson. In 1990, he tied for 5-7th in Simferopol. Huzman, who is Jewish, moved to Israel in 1992. He represented Israel five times in Chess Olympiads. \n*  In 1996, at first reserve board at the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan (+3 –1 =5); \n*  In 2000, at second reserve board at the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+1 –1 =4); \n*  In 2002, at second reserve board at the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled (+4 –0 =4); \n*  In 2004, at first reserve board at the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià (+4 –1 =3); \n*  In 2006, at first reserve board at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin (+3 –0 =4). In 1999, he tied for 5-6th with Boris Avrukh in Tel Aviv (Boris Gelfand, Ilia Smirin, and Lev Psakhis won). In 2000, he tied for 1st-2nd with Avrukh in Biel. In 2003 during the European Clubs Cup in Crete, he scored an upset win over Garry Kasparov after Kasparov made a rare blunder. In 2004, he took 6th in Beer Sheva Rapid (Viktor Korchnoi won). In 2005, he took 3rd in Montreal (Victor Mikhalevski won). Huzman has trained Canadian Grandmaster Mark Bluvshtein, with success, and seconded top player Boris Gelfand.


Louis Gabriel d’Antessanty (or Abbé G.) (October 26, 1834, in Troyes – January 6, 1922, in Troyes) was a French entomologist. His principal publications are: \n* L'étude des Hémiptères. Feuille des Jeunes naturalistes XIII (1881). (English: Hemiptera studies) \n* Catalogue des Hémiptères-Hétéroptères de l'Aube Dufour-Bouquot Plaquette. Grand In-8 Broché. (English: Aube's hemiptera-heteroptera census by Dufour-Bouquot and Plaquette) Troyes (1891). \n* Liste des Orthoptères observés dans l'Aube. Mémoires de la Société Académique de l’Aube, Tome xxv : 1-9 (1916). (English: List of Aube's orthoptera species) And on general natural history: \n* L'étude de l'histoire naturelle. Lecture faite en séance publique de la Société Académique de l'Aube. (English: Open lecture by the Aube academic society) The types of the new species of Hemiptera described by d’Antessanty are listed in Royer, M. 1922. Les types de la collection d'Hémipt Pres de l'abbé G. d'Antessanty. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1922:268-269.


Joël Pelier (Valentigney, 23 March 1962) is a French former professional road bicycle racer. After the final climb of stage 17 in the 1986 Tour de France, Pelier collapsed from exhaustion and fell into a 7-hour coma. In the 1989 Tour de France, then 27-year-old French domestique Joel Pelier had never been watched in his pro career by his parents who were dedicated to caring for Pelier's severely disabled sibling who needed constant attention. Pelier's parents made arrangements to watch stage 6 from near the finish line to which Pelier responded with an attempted lone breakaway. Pelier held out to win the stage by 1 minute and 34 seconds. He rode on his own for 4 and a 1/2 hours through wind and rain for 102 of the stage's 161 miles. It was the then second longest breakway in Tour de France history after Albert Bourlon in 1947 and since surpassed by Thierry Marie. On the podium for the day's presentations a tear drenched Pelier was seen on television saying, \"Mon per, mon per\". \"This win is so special to me because today is the first time that my mother and father have seen me in the Tour de France,’ said Pelier.


Farid Abbasov (Azerbaijani: Fərid Abbasov), (born January 31, 1979) is a chess Grandmaster (2007) from Azerbaijan, rated 2,558 by FIDE. He is ranked 378th in the world and 8th in his nation. In 1997, he took 2nd place in the European Youth Chess Championship. In 2001, he was awarded the International Master title. Best results: 1st at Alushta 2004; 1st at Kireyevsk 2004; 2nd at Tula 2006; 1st at Konya 2006; 1st the Rohde Open in Sautron, France 2007; 1st at Canakkale 2007; 1st at La Fere Open (France) 2008; 1st at Nimes Open (France) 2008; 2nd at the President's Cup in Baku 2008; 1st at the Caspian Cup in Rasht 2010. In 2007, he won the gold medal at an international tournament in Laholm, Sweden. Unfortunately, thieves broke into his hotel room and stole his laptop computer, flight ticket, and documents. He has coached the Azerbaijan Youth chess team for the past 9 years.


(Carl Fredrik) Edmund Neupert (1 April 1842 – 22 June 1888) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. Neupert was born in Christiana (now called Oslo). His father was a descendant of a German family belonging to the nobility, who had emigrated when young to Xania in Norway. He was a teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin from 1866-1868. He then moved to Copenhagen, where he held a position at the city's conservatory for two years. In 1881 he traveled to Moscow, and in 1882 he moved to Christiania, where he taught at a piano school for children. In 1883 he stayed in New York City. Neupert was regarded as an outstanding pianist and piano pedagogue, often compared to Franz Liszt. He was now best remembered as the soloist at the world premiere of Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor. This occurred on 3 April 1869 in the Casino Concert Hall in Copenhagen, with the Royal Danish Orchestra conducted by Holger Simon Paulli. The piano used for the performance was lent for the occasion by Anton Rubinstein, who attended the concert. Grieg himself was not present, due to commitments back home in Norway. Neupert was also the dedicatee of the second edition of the concerto (Rikard Nordraak was the original dedicatee), and was said to have actually composed the cadenza in the first movement. Among Neupert's compositions, the 24 Concert-Etüden and the 24 Octav-Etüden are especially highly regarded.


Walter Ingalls Hayes (December 9, 1841 – March 14, 1901) was a four-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district during the Gilded Age. Hayes was born in Marshall, Michigan. He attended the common schools and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor in 1863, and was admitted to the bar the same year. Hayes commenced practice in Marshall and in 1864 and 1865 held the positions of Marshall city attorney and United States commissioner for the eastern district of Michigan. Hayes relocating to Iowa as the Civil War came to an end. He served as United States commissioner for Iowa from 1865 to 1875 and was city solicitor of Clinton, Iowa, in 1870. Hayes was the district judge of the seventh judicial district of Iowa from 1875 to 1887. In that capacity, in 1882 he presided over one of the most important cases in the state of that era, in which liquor merchants challenged the enforceability of the 1882 amendment to the Iowa Constitution requiring prohibition. Hayes declared the amendment unconstitutional on procedural grounds, based on the failure of the law to pass both houses of the Iowa General Assembly in identical form. The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed Hayes' ruling, but in the next session the Iowa General Assembly adopted prohibition, by statute, in a constitutional fashion. Hayes served as delegate to the 1884 Democratic National Convention. In 1886, Hayes wrested the Democratic nomination for the 2nd district away from incumbent Jeremiah Henry Murphy. To enhance the chances for Iowa Republicans to hold all other Congressional seats in Iowa, the state's General Assembly had included many of the most Democratic-leaning areas of eastern Iowa in a single district (the second). Hayes won the general election that year and represented the 2nd district in the 50th United States Congress. He was also elected to the three succeeding Congresses. However, in 1894, when seeking a fifth term, Hayes was defeated in the general election by Republican George M. Curtis. Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, Hayes was the only Democratic congressman from Iowa to serve more than two terms, and (along with Murphy) was one of only two who served two full terms. While in Congress, Hayes served as chairman of the Committee on Education in the Fifty-second Congress. In all, he served in Congress from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1895. After leaving Congress, Hayes resumed the practice of law in Clinton.He served as member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1897 and 1898. He died in Marshall, Michigan, on March 14, 1901. He was interred in Springdale Cemetery in Clinton.


John Ripin Miller (born May 23, 1938), an American politician, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the 1st congressional district of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer on active duty in 1960 and later in the U.S. Army Reserves. Miller did not run for re-election in 1992. Prior to being elected congressman, he was active in state and municipal governments, serving as assistant attorney general for Washington; vice president and legal counsel for the Washington Environmental Council; and Seattle City Councilman (1972–1979). Miller's first campaign for the City Council was tied to saving the Pike Place Market and while on the Council he oversaw the rehabilitation of the Market. He founded Seattle's urban P-Patch program, a gardening allotment program that was first of its kind in the nation which includes at least 90 sites as of 2016. Miller led the Council in rejecting Seattle's entry into Washington Public Power Supply System nuclear plants 4 and 5 which later went bankrupt, and unsuccessfully sought the demolition of the Alaska Way Viaduct separating Seattle's downtown from its waterfront. Miller served as the director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons for the U.S. State Department, with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large, starting in 2002. He sought to increase public awareness of modern day slavery and nurture a world wide abolitionist movement with the United States in the lead. Miller resigned effective December 15, 2006, to join the faculty of George Washington University. He later taught at Yale University and was named a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. Miller serves as a distinguished senior fellow in international affairs and human rights with the Discovery Institute. Prior to his time at State, he had served as the chair of the Institute, and was an English teacher at Northwest Yeshiva High School in Mercer Island, Washington.


Marilyn Priscilla Johnson (born June 19, 1922) is a former US diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Togo. She was appointed to that position on September 23, 1978, and left her post on July 29, 1981. She graduated from Radcliffe College with a B.A. in 1944 and from Middlebury College in 1952 with an M.A. She enlisted in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946. From 1952 and 1959, Johnson taught French at high schools. Between 1962 and 1964, she taught English as a foreign language in various schools inside Cameroon and Mali. She joined the Foreign Service in 1964, and was a cultural affairs officer in Bamako, Mali, and Tunis, Tunisia, as well as public affairs officer in Niamey, Niger. From 1971 to 1974, Johnson was the Deputy Assistant Director of the Information Centers Program. The following year, she attended the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, and from 1975 to 1976 she learned Russian through training. In 1976 she was cultural affairs officer in Moscow, Soviet Union. In September 1978 she was assigned as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Togo until July 1981.


Steven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death from Squamous-cell skin cancer in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until his death. He remained in New Mexico and was a lawyer until his election to Congress in 1989. From 1972 until 1981, Schiff was an assistant city attorney from Albuquerque. He was the Bernalillo County, New Mexico district attorney from 1981 until his entering Congress. It has been claimed that Schiff had an interest in the UFO phenomenon. Schiff died of squamous-cell carcinoma during his fifth term in Congress in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Republican Heather Wilson won a special election to succeed him.


Orlando (Pena) Yntema (born February 21, 1986) is a Dutch professional baseball pitcher, for the UVV Utrecht in the Dutch Baseball League. Yntema was born in the Dominican Republic. His Frisian Dutch father worked there as a s diplomat and lives there since 1972 and married a Dominican nurse. After having completed his primary and secondary education in Santo Domingo at age 17 he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the San Francisco Giants in 2003. He played in the Dominican Summer League in 2003 and 2005 and the Arizona League in 2004 and 2006 before missing 2007 with an injury. He played in Class-A in 2008 and 2009 with the Augusta Greenjackets and Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. He played in the Italian Baseball League in 2010 and then the Dutch Major League in 2011 and 2012. He also played for the Netherlands national baseball team in the 2010 Intercontinental Cup, 2011 Baseball World Cup, 2013 World Baseball Classic, 2014 France International Baseball Tournament, 2014 European Baseball Championship, 2015 World Port Tournament , 2015 WBSC Premier12 and 2016 France International Baseball Tournament. In 2011 he got the win in the final game of the World Championship final against Cuba. He pitched seven innings and allowed one point scored.


Victor J. \"Lefty\" Nickerson (December 25, 1928 – March 26, 2004) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer. He embarked on a career as a professional trainer in 1953, working primarily at racetracks in the Northeastern United States. Late in his career he trained from a base at Santa Anita Park in California. During his career, Lefty Nickerson conditioned Thoroughbreds for owners such as Harbor View Farm, Maxwell Henry Gluck of Elmendorf Farm, Pam & Martin Wygod, and Sam and Dorothy Rubin of Dotsam Stable.  For the Rubins, Nickerson trained the great John Henry in 1979–1981, notably winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Sword Dancer Handicap and Brighton Beach Handicap. A mentor to future National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee, Ron McAnally, when the Rubins decided to send the gelding to race in California, Nickerson recommended Ron McAnally. However, on John Henry's trips back to New York to race, Nickerson would be the trainer of record. Of Lefty Nickerson, Ron McAnally said: \"Lefty could say one sentence and answer all the things I wondered about all my life. I didn't even have to ask. He just knew what to say all the time. I wanted to learn so badly, and he's such an intelligent guy, and not only as a horseman. I'd never been around anyone like him. He knew so much.\" Nickerson suffered a stroke in 1997 and retired from racing. He died in his sleep at his home in Smithtown, New York.


Priscilla Martel is an award–winning American chef, food writer, and consultant notable for desserts, baking, pastries and fireplace-cooked meals. Her recipes appear in magazines such as Food & Wine. She is a contributing writer at Flavor and the Menu Magazine. She teaches and has written textbooks including ebooks used to teach students of the culinary arts. She is recognized as an authority on artisan baking, confectionery, cooking food in sealed plastic bags with water or steam called sous vide, and spa cooking techniques. In 2016, Martel is teaching a course in food writing at GateWay Community College in New Haven. Martel married prominent Connecticut restaurateur and chef Charlie van Over, and the couple often collaborate on recipes and cooking. Martel and van Over have cooked for 60 Minutes reporter Morley Safer, Chef Jacques Pepin as well as the late Broadway actor Peter Kapetan at their home in Connecticut. Martel and van Over were co–owners of a restaurant in Chester called Restaurant du Village. Her cooking often reflects a Mediterranean emphasis. She has a particular interest and expertise in almonds and desserts of the northeast. Martel and van Over hold patents regarding baking processes. Martel attended Phillips Academy in Andover and graduated in the school's first co–educational class in 1974. Her classmates included jazz Grammy–winner Bill Cunliffe, software financier Peter Currie, actor Dana Delany, painter Julian Hatton, poet Karl Kirchwey, writer Nate Lee, television producer Jonathan Meath, editor Sara Nelson, and sculptor Gar Waterman. She graduated from Brown University in 1978. Her love of writing was influenced in part after taking a course at Wesleyan called Portraits of People taught by Anne Greene, in the 1980s. Martel and van Over opened a Chester, Connecticut restaurant which they named Restaurant du Village in 1979 and sold it in 1990. In 2010, they own a firm called \"All About Food\" which holds baking patents and collaborates with food manufacturers and restaurants on such matters as menus, marketing programs, and new products. Martel and van Over were quoted in the New York Times about doing rotisserie cooking using a fireplace; on occasions, Martel and van Over have cooked for fellow Chester resident and 60 Minutes reporter Morley Safer. The couple would cook a multicourse meal in the fireplace while having sing–a–longs which sometimes included dancing, and their dinners often included quail, duck, venison or porterhouse steak. At one point, Martel and van Over lived in a house with six or seven fireplaces. Martel said the fireplace cooking experiences \"brings out the best in people.\" They grow vegetables and other foods in their garden for some of their meals. The dining table often has beautiful flowers such as zinnias and snapdragons and meals are often served with wine. Martel and van Over advise restaurants about such matters as how to create a brasserie. Beef steak and veal stew are cooked using a Tuscan grill. Martel and van Over argued in their book \"The Best Bread Ever\" that the best way to make the perfect loaf is to use a food processor. Martel's recipes entitled Cod with creamy nut sauce and Chicken Almond Curry with Apricots appeared in Food & Wine magazine. She is co-author of culinary textbooks On Baking: A Textbook of Baking and Pastry Fundamentals and On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals. She works as a consultant in product development to create international seafood chowders and Italian regional soups for Borden. For Absolut Vodka, she is a spokesperson and developer of recipes. She wrote over 150 columns entitled All About Food in Connecticut newspapers.


Doctor Sheik Umar Khan (6 March 1975 – 29 July 2014) was the chief Sierra Leonean doctor attempting to curb the country's Ebola outbreak in 2014. The virologist is credited with treating over a hundred patients before succumbing to the virus himself. He was recognized as a \"national hero\" by Sierra Leone's Health Ministry.Khan had long worked with Lassa fever, a disease that kills over 5,000 a year in Africa. He had expanded his clinic to accept Ebola patients. Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma, celebrated Khan as a \"national hero\". He had a habit of hugging the cured Ebola patients that were leaving his ward, to lift their spirits. Khan made contact with the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in 2010 when he came to Ghana to do his Residency. He was offered admission into the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons to undertake a 3-year residency training programme in internal medicine. As part of the training, he was posted to the Department of Medicine of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.


Butler Carson Derrick, Jr.  (September 30, 1936 – May 5, 2014) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools in Mayesville and Florence, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1958 and earned an LL.B. from the University of Georgia Law School in 1965. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1965 and commenced practice in Edgefield; he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1969 to 1974, and was a delegate to the South Carolina State Democratic conventions in 1972 and 1974. Derrick was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1974. That same year, he was elected to the House from South Carolina's 3rd congressional district, succeeding longtime congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn. He was reelected nine times, only facing serious opposition in 1988. After retirement from Congress, he was a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Washington, DC. Derrick died of cancer at his home in Easley on May 5, 2014.


Johan \"Jan\" Tjaarda (1897–1962), later known as John Tjaarda van Sterkenburg, was a Dutch-born product and automotive designer in the United States. Tjaarda was born in 1897 in Arnhem, as the son of Henriette Elisabeth Thieme and the physician Johannes Jan Tjaarda. Tjaarda trained in aeronautical design in the United Kingdom and later served as a pilot in the Dutch Air Force. After emigrating to the United States in 1923, he changed his name to John and worked in custom coachbuilding in Hollywood. During the 1920s, he worked on a series of streamlined monocoque designs, known as the \"Sterkenburg series\", before joining the Briggs Manufacturing Company as chief of body design. There he developed a concept car for the Ford Motor Company to be shown at the Century of Progress Exhibition (1933-1934) in Chicago. Known as the \"Briggs Dream Car\", this was a streamlined rear-engined design, based on his previous work. Re-engineered as a front-engined car, this design was developed into the 1936 Lincoln-Zephyr. Tjaarda also designed an exhibition \"Kitchen of Tomorrow\" for Briggs in 1934. Tjaarda's son, Tom Tjaarda also became an automotive designer, working mainly in Italy.