Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte (20 April 1815 – 22 April 1884), or Jørgen Christian Matthias Schiødte, was a Danish entomologist. He was Professor at University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum. His work was widely read \"for, as Schiodte remarks: 'We accordingly look upon the subterranean faunas as small ramifications which have penetrated into the earth from the geographically limited faunas of the adjacent tracts, and which, as they extended themselves into darkness, have been accommodated to surrounding circumstances. Animals not far remote from ordinary forms, prepare the transition from light to darkness. Next follow those that are constructed for twilight; and, last of all, those destined for total darkness, and whose formation is quite peculiar.' These remarks of Schiodte's it should be understood, apply not to the same, but to distinct species.\" - Charles Darwin His best known publications were \n* Genera og species of Danmarks Eleutherata at tjene som fauna for denne orden og som indledning til dens anatomie og historie (1841) \n* Naturhistoriske bidrag til en beskrivelse of Grønland / af J. Reinhardt, J.C. Schiødte, O.A.L. Mørch, C.F. Lütken, J. Lange, H. Rink. Særskilt aftryk af tillæggene til \"Grønland, geographisk og statistisk beskrevet,\" af H. Rink. 1857 \n* De metamorphosi eleutheratorum observationes : bidrag til insekternes udviklingshistorie / ved J. C. Schiødte.Kjøbenhavn Thieles Bogtrykkeri,1861-72. online In addition, he described numerous species of insects as well as the spider genus Liphistius.


Peter C. Borsari (1939 in Zürich - May 29, 2006 in Los Angeles) was an American-Swiss photographer. His endearing charm and impeccable reputation permitted him exclusive access and unparalleled cooperation from his subjects. The antithesis of today’s paparazzi, he was an invited guest at Hollywood’s premier events as well as celebrities’ personal parties and gatherings. Spanning Presley to Nixon, he actively photographed people, places and events from 1965 to 1995. Peter estimated his archive contained approximately two million images; including transparencies, negatives, prints and contactsheets. Roughly 80% of these images feature celebrities in the entertainment industry. The remainder consists primarily of prominentpoliticians (e.g. Nixon), athletes (e.g. Ali), events (e.g. Malibu fire), sports (e.g. Formula One) and travel destinations (e.g. Switzerland). The Peter C. Borsari Photographic Archive is unequaled in its breadth, exclusivity and sheer magnitude. Most distinguishing is Peter’s singular ability to capture his subjects in their best light.


Bettina Fulco (born 23 October 1968) is a retired Argentine professional women's tennis player. She reached her highest ranking of No. 23 on October 10, 1988. Fulco began playing tennis at age 10 at the University Club in her hometown of Mar Del Plata, having been inspired to start because of the increased interest in the sport in Argentina due to Guillermo Vilas' success. As a junior, Bettina was among the best in the world, reaching the finals of the Orange Bowl 18-and-under championships in 1986, and finishing second in the rankings in 1986. She turned professional in 1987. Like many South American players, Bettina Fulco was considered a clay court specialist, and reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1988. Bettina beat Martina Navratilova in Houston 1994 for her biggest career victory. She also achieved victories over Conchita Martínez, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Hana Mandlíková, Katerina Maleeva, Manuela Maleeva, Magdalena Maleeva, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Lori McNeil and Nathalie Tauziat. She retired from professional tennis in 1998. Since retiring from tennis, Bettina has taken on the position of director of the School of Tennis at the Club Atletico Kimberley, based in Mar del Plata. She is also a coach, having worked with notable players such as Victoria Azarenka, Kateryna Bondarenko, Angelique Widjaja and Emma Laine. In addition, Bettina was the captain of the Argentina Fed Cup team from 2011 to 2013.


André Pinto Rebouças (13 January 1838 – 9 April 1898) was a Brazilian military engineer, abolitionist and inventor, son of Antônio Pereira Rebouças (1798–1880) and Carolina Pinto Rebouças. Lawyer, member of Parliament (representing the Brazilian state of Bahia) and an adviser to Pedro II of Brazil, his father was the son of a manumitted slave and a Portuguese tailor. His brothers Antônio Pereira Rebouças Filho and José Rebouças were also engineers. Despite racial prejudice, his father, a mulatto, was an important and prestigious man at the time. Self-taught to read and write, he had been granted the right to practice law throughout the country, represented Bahia in the House of Representatives on a range of legislature, was secretary of the Provincial Governorship of Sergipe, advisor to the Empire, and had received the title of Knight of the Imperial Order of the cross in 1823. Rebouças became famous in Rio de Janeiro, at the time capital of the Empire of Brazil, solving the trouble of water supply, bringing it from fountain-heads outside the town. Serving as a military engineer during the Paraguayan War in Paraguay, Rebouças successfully developed a torpedo. Alongside Machado de Assis and Olavo Bilac, Rebouças was a very important middle class representative with African descent, he also was one of the most important voices for the abolition of slavery in Brazil. He encouraged the career of Antônio Carlos Gomes, author of the opera O Guarani. In the 1880s, Rebouças began to participate actively in the abolitionist cause, he helped to create the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society, alongside Joaquim Nabuco, José do Patrocínio and others. After the Republican coup d'État, Rebouças went into exile with Pedro II to Europe. For two years he stayed exiled in Lisboa, as a correspondent for The Times of London. In 1892, facing financial problems, Rebouças went to Luanda and after that, Funchal, in Madeira. In 1898 his body was found at the shoreline. He supposedly committed suicide.


Edward George Gibson (born November 8, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut, pilot, engineer, and physicist. Before becoming a NASA astronaut, Gibson graduated from the University of Rochester and the California Institute of Technology. He became a research assistant in jet propulsion while completing his studies and eventually became a research scientist for Philco Corporation until joining NASA. Gibson was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1965 as part of Astronaut Group 4, the first group of scientist-astronauts. He served on the support crew of Apollo 12 before moving on to work on the development of the Skylab space station. In 1973–74, Gibson made his first and only flight into space as science pilot aboard Skylab 4, the third and final manned flight to Skylab. He, along with Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot William Pogue, spent just over 84 days in space. Gibson resigned from NASA in December 1974, but returned in 1977 to preside over the selection of scientist-astronaut candidates. Gibson retired from NASA for the last time in October 1982.


James Balfour (1854–1917) was a Canadian architect. Son of Peter Balfour, Hamilton alderman and carpenter. Educated in Hamilton. Studied architecture with the famous firm of Peddie and Kniver in Edinburgh, Scotland. Before returning to Hamilton he worked in New York for several years. First professional mention of Balfour in Hamilton is in the 1876-7 city directory. The house still standing at 250 James Street South was one of his early designs. His larger buildings were of the Romanesque style, revived around 1870 by Henry Hobson Richardson of the United States. Tuckett Mansion, on corner of King & Queen, now forms a portion of the complex known as the Scottish Rite. Completed in 1896 for George Elias Tuckett, founder of Tuckett Tobacco and the 27th mayor of Hamilton, City Hall on corner of James & York Boulevard (1888, demolished), both in Hamilton, Ontario. Balfour was also successful outside of Hamilton. In 1878-1882 designed and oversaw construction of an all-girl school, Alma College (St. Thomas, Ontario) (1878–81) and the additions (1888–89), which were destroyed by a fire on May 28, 2008. In March 1887 he won the design competition for the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts.


Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre (January 21, 1895 – March 23, 1972) was a Spanish Basque fashion designer and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as \"the master of us all\" by Christian Dior and as \"the only couturier in the truest sense of the word\" by Coco Chanel, who continued \"The others are simply fashion designers\". He continues to be revered as the supreme deity of the European salons. On the day of his death, in 1972, Women's Wear Daily ran the headline \"The king is dead\" (no one in the fashion world had any doubt as to whom it referred). Since 2011 the purpose built Museo Balenciaga exhibits examples of his work in his birth town Getaria. Many of the 1200 pieces in the collection were supplied by his pupil Hubert de Givenchy and clients such as Grace Kelly.


Jean Rinkel-Quertier (née Quertier; born 12 November 1925), is a female former tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and 1950s. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the semifinal of the doubles event at the 1952 and 1953 Wimbledon Championships. Partnering compatriot Sue Partridge and Helen Fletcher respectively they lost on both occasions in straight sets to the first-seeded team of Shirley Fry and Doris Hart. Her best singles performance in the Grand Slam events was reaching the quarterfinal of the French (1949, 1953), Wimbledon (1948, 1952) and U.S. Championships (1951, 1953). In 1949 and 1950 she played against compatriot Joan Curry in the final of the British Covered Court Championships, played on wooden courts at the Queen's Club  in London, and won the 1950 edition in three sets. In 1949 she was the runner-up at the British Hard Court Championships. Quertier was a member of the British Wightman Cup team in 1947 and from 1949 to 1953. All these editions of the team tennis competition were won by the United States team and Quertier was responsible for the only British match win when she defeated Shirley Fry in 1951 in straight sets. She married Dutch tennis player Ivo Rinkel on 28 February 1952 in Roehampton and the couple had two daughters.


Sunny Fong (born 1977) is a Canadian fashion designer who owns VAWK, a clothing brand. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. In 2009, he won the second season of Project Runway Canada. His collection from this competition was showcased at LG Fashion Week. In both 2009 and 2010, Fong began the showings of his collections before the official start of LG Fashion Week, showcasing his work at Walker Court of the Art Gallery of Ontario. His 2011 spring/summer collection combined the themes of bullfighting and safari. Urban culture and Malayan mountaineering were the themes of his 2011 fall/winter collection. This collection was showcased at LG Fashion Week, in contrast to Fong's previous few seasons' off-site showings. At the following year's LG Fashion Week, Fong's spring/summer 2012 collection featured monokinis that critics from The London Free Press called \"even a bit tough for the models to pull off, much less mere mortals.\" During the final fashion show of that October's LG Fashion Week, Fong had a model appear wearing a gold bullet bra as Madonna's \"Justify My Love\" played.


William Ian Liddell(born 1938) CBE FREng FIStructE Hon FRIBA is a structural engineer and the designer of London's Millennium Dome. He was one of the founding partners of Buro Happold and is a Royal Academy Visiting Professor of Engineering Design at Cambridge University School of Engineering. He is now a consultant for Buro Happold. He studied mechanical sciences at St John's College, Cambridge followed by a diploma in concrete structures at Imperial College, London. He was project engineer on the Sydney Opera House, playing a significant role in the formfinding of the iconic roofs. He received the IStructE Gold Medal in 1999. For his work as Chief Design Engineer on London's Millennium Dome project, he was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1999 New Year Honours. Ian has an interest in the encouragement of the next generation of engineers and designers. To this end he is a Trustee of both the Arkwright Scholarships Trust and The Smallpeice Trust.


Syed Hassan Raza (born 4 January 1959) is a Pakistani diplomat and a career foreign service officer. He is the current High Commissioner of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Malaysia. Prior to his appointment to Malaysia, he was the ambassador of Pakistan to the State of Qatar. Raza attended the prestigious St. Anthony's High School (Lahore) and later enrolled at the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Raza then went on to study Law & Political Science at Columbia University, New York. He joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1986, belonging to the 14th common. After joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was appointed as the desk officer for the United Nations and subsequently as desk officer for Afghanistan. He also served as an assistant legal adviser for international law and treaties. He served as Director-General Economic Coordination & FODP(Friends of Democratic Pakistan) from 2009–13, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan), Islamabad. His foreign diplomatic assignments include working as a political officer in the Office of the UN Special Representative for Somalia, Admiral Jonathan Howe, from 1993 to 1994. It was during his stay when the Battle of Mogadishu took place on 3 and 4 October 1993. He served at the Embassy of Pakistan in Kyrgyzstan from 1995-8. He returned to work in the Central Asia region from 2001 to 2003 as the deputy Head of Mission at the embassy of Pakistan in Kazakhstan. He then served as the deputy Consul General of Pakistan in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 2003 to 2005 and concurrently was the representative of Pakistan to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). He then went on to join the OIC in 2005 as an advisor to the OIC secretary-general, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, on political and legal affairs. He worked in the OIC for three years, on various issues such as the reform and restructure of the organisation, including its new Charter. He served as the D-8 (Developing-8) commissioner of Pakistan from 2009 until his appointment as Pakistan’s ambassador to Qatar. Ambassador Raza is married with two sons.


Arny Freytag (born April 12, 1950) is an American photographer who specializes in glamour photography. He began working for Playboy magazine in 1976 and at one time was one of only two photographers who produced the Playboy centerfold photographs. Freytag grew up in Chicago, Illinois, attending Sutherland grammar school and Luther South High School. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1970, and from Brooks Institute of Photography (Santa Barbara, California) in 1974. After an initial period as an apprentice at Playboy, he joined Mario Casilli, Richard Fegley and Ken Marcus as the principal photographers at Playboy’s California studio. During his studies at Brooks, Freytag became proficient with the 4”x5” view camera, a skill that served him well shooting the monthly multi-page (gatefold) Playboy centerfold. Attempting to produce the very highest quality possible for the centerfold image, Playboy used the very large 8\"x10” view camera. Due to the amount of strobe (electronic flash) light needed to expose that large a sheet of film, Freytag, at first of necessity and later by choice, specialized in the use of elaborate lighting setups, often using dozens of flash heads. Later, after Playboy abandoned film and moved to digital cameras, Freytag continued to create images using up to fifty flash heads, each light meticulously placed and targeted to illuminate a small area of the photo. Freytag likens his technique to that of a painter, using each light as his brush strokes, selectively illuminating each area as he incrementally builds the final image. Freytag no longer works for Playboy. His last centerfold shoot was of Playmate Amanda Streich, Miss December of 2012. He currently lives in Woodland Hills, California.


Gao Ning (born 11 October 1982 in Hubei, China) is a male Table Tennis player from Singapore. He is considered Singapore's best male player with a world ranking of 34 as of August, 2016. He was first in men's singles at the 2007 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships. He won a gold medal as a team member plus silver medals in the men's singles and men's doubles at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Gao Ning cried after his singles match defeat to an opponent in the Beijing 2008 Olympics as no coach was available to guide him during the match. His coach was sick before the match. The scene of him in tears was telecast on local TV, causing the head coach of the Singapore table tennis team to lose his job. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won another two gold medals and a silver. The gold medals came in the men's doubles, with Li Hu, and the men's team, again with Li, and Zhan Jian. The silver came in the men's individual, where he lost the final to his team-mate Zhan.


Edgar Laurence \"Dunc\" Gray (17 July 1906 – 30 August 1996) was an Australian track cyclist and Olympian. Gray was born in Goulburn, New South Wales. He was called 'Dunc', which dates back to school where he was called 'Dunc' and this was later was extended to 'Duncan'. He started competitive cycling with Goulburn Amateur Cycling Club around 1925. From 1926 to 1941 he won 20 Australian titles, 36 New South Wales titles, and 36 club championships. On eight occasions he was the NSW 1000m time trial and/or the 1000m sprint winner. He won a bronze medal for the 1000m time trial at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. This was Australia's first Olympic Games medal in cycling. At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won Australia's first cycling gold in the same event, in world record time of 1m 13s. He represented Australia at the 1934 British Empire Games and won the 1000m time trial. At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, he won the 1000m sprint. He was the flag-bearer for Australia at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and at the 1938 British Empire Games. In his last years, Gray lived in Kiama and supported the Olympic movement, including Melbourne's bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics and then Sydney's successful bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics. The Dunc Gray Velodrome at Bass Hill, in Sydney's western suburbs, was built for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and named after him. The Speedwell bike that Gray rode at the 1932 Summer Olympics is at the Dunc Gray velodrome. Speedwell bicycles were manufactured by Charles Bennett, a former Intercolonial Champion of Australia, who raced pennyfathings before Federation in 1901. In 1985, Gray was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. In 2015, he was an inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductee.


Fremont D. Orff was an American architect. He worked together with his architect brother George W. Orff and also partnered with Edgar E. Joralemon as Orff & Joraleman. He also partnered with Ernest F. Guilbert as Minneapolis-based Orff & Guilbert. A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works include (with attribution): \n* Big Stone County Courthouse, (1902), 20 2nd St., SE Ortonville, MN (Orff,Fremont D.), NRHP-listed \n* Little Falls Carnegie Library, 108 3rd St., NE Little Falls, MN (Orfff,Fremont), NRHP-listed \n* Park Rapids Jail, 205 W. Second St. Park Rapids, MN (Orff,Fremont D.), NRHP-listed \n* Perham Village Hall and Fire Station, 153 E. Main Perham, MN (Orff,Fremont D.), NRHP-listed \n* Red Lake County Courthouse, (1911) 124 Langevin Red Lake Falls, MN (Orff,Fremont D.), NRHP-listed \n* Renville County Courthouse and Jail, 500 E. DePue Ave. Olivia, MN (Orff,Fremont D.), NRHP-listed \n* Polk County Courthouse, Main St. Balsam Lake, WI (Orff & Guilbert), NRHP-listed \n* Waseca County Courthouse, 307 N. State St. Waseca, MN (Orff & Joraleman), NRHP-listed \n* Wayne County Courthouse, 510 Pearl St. Wayne, NE (Orff & Guilbert), NRHP-listed. Appears to have been designed by Orff alone, specifically. \n* Worth County Courthouse, Public Sq. Grant City, MO (Orff & Guilbert), NRHP-listed


Bazigit Atajev is a Russian mixed martial artist and kickboxer who represented Russia in RINGS, fought in Pride Fighting Championships, and also competed in K-1 kickboxing. He is known for a fierce spinning heel kick and Sambo style grappling. Atajev also holds notable wins against Tsuyoshi Kohsaka, Roman Zentsov, Valdas Pocevicius, and Aaron Brink. Ajatev was considered a rising star in 2003, entering his first fight with PRIDE. In his Pride debut, he suffered his only loss against Dutchman Alistair Overeem at Pride 24. Atajev then planned to make his return to Pride, at their final event Pride 34 against Gilbert Yvel. However, due to a stomach illness, the bout was cancelled. In 2008, he faced the eventual K-1 champion Remy Bonjasky in his kickboxing debut. He was defeated by knockout early in the third round. He won the gold medal at the 2013 World Wushu Championships.


Patrick Hayman (1915 – 1988) was an English artist who worked in a variety of media including painting, drawing and three-dimensional constructions. Although he only lived in Cornwall, for a few years, he was closely associated with the St Ives School of painters and sculptors. Hayman acknowledged he was inspired to paint by R.N. (Bob) Field (1899–1987) teacher at the school of art in Dunedin, New Zealand, where Hayman went to live as a young man. He mingled there in the 1930s with a group of young artists who developed New Zealand's first indigenous Modernism. Notable in that group was Colin McCahon (1919–1987) who stayed in contact with Hayman and like him used texts as integral to his imagery. A daughter, Christina Conrad, was born in New Zealand in 1942. Also an artist as well as a filmmaker and poet, her paintings and clay icons were created without her having knowledge of her real father, but neverthesless bear a striking resemblance, aesthetically and in terms of social concerns, with a lot of her father's work. She is well known in New Zealand, Australia and the United States where she has exhibited widely in and around New York, including the Outsider Art Fair and the Kleinart Gallery in Woodstock.


Memphis Depay (born 13 February 1994), also known as Memphis, is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for English club Manchester United and the Netherlands national team. Depay was named as the \"Best Young Player\" in the world in 2015 by France Football. Depay is widely considered to be one of the brightest young talents in European football and the most exciting young player to emerge from the Eredivisie since compatriot Arjen Robben. Memphis is known for his ability to cut inside, dribbling, distance shooting and ability to play the ball off the ground. His playing style has earned him acclaim, with fans, media and former players drawing comparison to Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, who believes \"Memphis is one of the best young players in the world.\", while Louis Van Gaal, Ronald Koeman, Guus Hiddink, Arjen Robben, Marco van Basten, and Wayne Rooney have stated \"he will be the best in the world\". Having risen from significant adversity as a youngster in Moordrecht his former PSV youth coach Mart van Duren, immediately saw an innate quality in him drawing on his work ethic \"I find it understandable that people can be reminded of Cristiano Ronaldo by Memphis,\" he said. \"Well, I believe he is going to get close.\" He began his professional career with PSV Eindhoven, where, under the influence of manager Phillip Cocu, he became an integral part of the team, scoring 50 goals in 124 games across all competitions. During the 2014-15 season, he was the top scorer of the league with 22 goals in 30 games, and helped the team win the Eredivisie title for the first time since 2008. He also personally won the Johan Cruyff Trophy for his performances during the season as the talent of the year. He joined Manchester United in May 2015 for a reported fee of £25 million. During the 2015-16 season Depay had the third-highest shirt sales in the world behind Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo according to online retailer Kitbag. A product of the KNVB institution Memphis has represented the national team at every professional level from early developmental stages under the tutelage of iconic Dutch coaches and players alike. Memphis was part of the Netherlands Under-17 team that won the 2011 European Championship. He made his senior debut in 2013, and the following year was part of their squad that came third at the 2014 FIFA World Cup where he made his breakthrough performances on the international stage. He is currently a member of the national setup for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign.


Gina Joy Carano (born April 16, 1982) is an American actress, television personality, fitness model, and former mixed martial artist. Carano began her training with straight Muay Thai to competitive MMA, where she competed in Strikeforce and EliteXC. She was featured in ESPN The Magazine as well as Maxim. Her popularity led to her being called the \"face of women's MMA\" (although Carano herself rejected the title) and was ranked 5th on a list of the \"Top 10 Influential Women\" of 2008. In August 2009, Carano fought Cristiane Santos in Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg, the first time two women headlined a major MMA event; Santos won. Carano compiled a competitive record of 12–1–1 in Muay Thai and a 7–1 in women's MMA. Outside the ring, Carano performed as Crush in the revamped 2008 television series American Gladiators. Carano has pursued a career in acting since she retired from competition. Her film debut in Steven Soderbergh's 2011 action film Haywire earned a nomination for best actress in that genre at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards. Additional film credits include Fast & Furious 6 (2013), a starring role in In the Blood (2014), and as Angel Dust in the Marvel Comics film Deadpool (2016).


Alvah Augustus Clark (September 13, 1840 – December 27, 1912) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1877 to 1881. He was the first cousin of James N. Pidcock, who represented the same district from 1885 to 1889. Born in Lebanon Township, New Jersey, Clark attended public and private schools as a child, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863, commencing practice in New Germantown, New Jersey. He was licensed as a counselor in 1867 and moved to Somerville, New Jersey later the same year where he continued to practice law. Clark was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1880. After leaving Congress, Clark resumed practicing law, was appointed postmaster of Somerville, serving until 1899 and, once again, resumed practicing law until his death in Somerville on December 27, 1912. He was interred in New Somerville Cemetery in Somerville.


Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith, OBE, BSc, MICE (13 October 1901 – 10 February 1981) was a British civil engineer. Shirley-Smith is perhaps most famous for helping to design the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta for the Indian Public Works Department in 1943. He also served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer Territorial Army unit which provides engineering expertise to the British Army and was gazetted as a Major of that corps on 6 October 1953 In 1962 he worked as site agent for the ADC bridge company during construction of the Forth Road Bridge. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1967 to November 1968, during the 150th anniversary of that institution, and was made a Fellow of Imperial College, London in 1966 Shirley-Smith was a consulting engineer and worked for W.V. Zinn & Associates of London from 1969 to 1978. During 1968 Shirley-Smith was president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering and helped to arrange the first joint-conferences of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Shirley-Smith was honoured with an appointment as a Knight Bachelor on 1 January 1969 in the Queen's New Year Honours, being knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 7 March 1969. He was appointed a first class engineer member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1969. Shirley-Smith was also an author and wrote The World's Great Bridges and the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges. In 1971 he lived in Orpington in Kent. Shirley-Smith died on 10 February 1981.


Sofya Melikyan is an Armenian pianist, born in Yerevan. To date, Melikyan toured throughout Spain, Germany, France, Russia, Canada, Armenia, Japan, Australia, Italy, Serbia and the U.S. She appeared as a soloist with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Spain, Cordoba Symphony Orchestra, Valencia Symphony Orchestra, New Europe Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Andalucía, among others. Melikyan's performances have been broadcast at National Radio and Television of Spain, National Radio and Television of Armenia, National Radio of Catalonia, Chicago WFMT Radio Station, Muzzik French Television Station, New York WXQR Radio Station, among others. Melikyan has also released two CDs featuring the music of Haydn, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Albeniz, Dutilleux and Khachaturian. Sofya Melikyan has been awarded First Prize and a Prize for outstanding Music Talent at the Marisa Montiel International Piano Competition in Linares, First Prize at the Ibiza International Piano Competition in Spain, First Prize for Music Interpretation awarded by “Amigos del Colegio de España” Association in Paris. She has also received top and special prizes at the 15th Jose Iturbi and Maria Canals International Competitions in Spain. Recent and upcoming performance highlights include tours in Japan, Australia, Canada, Europe and USA; appearances at Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival with violist Kim Kashkashian; European tour with Sima Trio; concerto appearances with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, and Radio and Television Orchestra of Spain. Sofya Melikyan completed her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid with Joaquin Soriano, École Normale de Musique de Paris with Ramzi Yassa and Manhattan School of Music in New York where she was a scholarship student of Solomon Mikowsky. Other pianists who have mentored her are Brigitte Engerer, Galina Eguiazarova and Elena Tatulyan.


Douglas Hemphill Elliott (June 3, 1921 – June 19, 1960) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Douglas H. Elliott was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the schools of Philadelphia and graduated from The Haverford School in 1938. He attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, from 1938 to 1940. During the Second World War, he served in the United States Navy from 1941 until discharged as a Chief Petty Officer in 1945. He worked for insurance companies from 1945 to 1952. He served as director of public relations of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia from 1950 to 1952. He served as vice president of Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, from 1952 to 1960. Elliott was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1956, and served until he was elected to the Eighty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard Simpson and served from April 26, 1960, until his suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in Horse Valley, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1960. Interment in Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.


Thomas Keller (born October 14, 1955) is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, notably the Best California Chef in 1996, and the Best Chef in America in 1997. The restaurant is a perennial winner in the annual Restaurant Magazine list of the Top 50 Restaurants of the World. In 2005, he was awarded the three star rating in the inaugural Michelin Guide for New York for his restaurant Per Se, and in 2006, he was awarded three stars in the inaugural Michelin Guide to the Bay Area for The French Laundry. He is the only American chef to have been awarded simultaneous three star Michelin ratings for two different restaurants. He currently holds 7 Michelin stars total: 3 at Per Se, 3 at The French Laundry, and 1 at Bouchon.


Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (born July 13, 1934 in Zhizdra) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. Aleksei's father was Lithuanian with the last name Kuraitis and Aleksei uses his mother's last name \"Yeliseyev\"  so some regard him as also being a Lithuanian cosmonaut. A graduate of the Bauman Higher Technical School (1957) and postgraduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1962). Yeliseyev worked as an engineer in Sergey Korolev's design bureau before being selected for cosmonaut training. Following his retirement from the space programme in 1985, he took up at an administrative position at the Bauman school for several years before retiring fully. His awards include: \n* Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (January 22 and October 22, 1969) \n* Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR \n* Four Orders of Lenin (January 22, 1969 October 22, 1969 April 30, 1971, January 15, 1976) \n* Medal \"For Merit in Space Exploration\" (April 12, 2011) - for the great achievements in the field of research, development and utilization of outer space, many years of diligent work, public activities \n* Jubilee Medal \"In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin\" \n* State Prize of the USSR (November 3, 1980) Foreign awards: \n* Hero of the German Democratic Republic \n* Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria \n* Order of Georgi Dimitrov (People's Republic of Bulgaria)


Alex Reymundo is a Mexican-American comedian and actor, who was featured on the 2007 ALMA Awards. He was born in Acapulco, Mexico, where he lived until his family moved to Texas in the United States where lived from the age of two to twenty-two. He lived in Kentucky for seven years. Reymundo is married and has two children, a boy and a girl. Reymundo had a one-hour special that aired on Comedy Central in 2007 called Alex Reymundo Hick-Spanic: Live in Albuquerque. He was also featured in the Showtime and Comedy Central special The Original Latin Kings of Comedy along with other Latin comedians such as George Lopez and Paul Rodriguez. He received an ALMA Award in 2008 for \"Outstanding Comedy Special\" for his one-hour comedy special \"Alex Reymundo Hick-Spanic, Live in Albuquerque.\" He is currently opening up for fellow comedian (and brother-in-law) Ron White on his tour. His sister is Margo Rey.


Carol-Eduard Novak (born 28 July 1976 in Miercurea Ciuc) is a Romanian road and track racing cyclist and Paralympic champion. Initially a speed skater, Novak lost one of his feet in a car accident in 1996. Subsequently, he switched to cycling and emerged as a professional cyclist. He took part at his first Paralympics in 2004, followed by two more participations in 2008 and 2012. At the 2008 Paralympic Games Novak won the silver medal in the individual time trial, thus capturing Romania's first ever Paralympic medal. At the 2012 Games he reached further milestones by winning the gold medal in the 1 km track pursuit event – the first ever in the country's Paralympic history – and setting a new world record time en route to the final. Additionally, he collected a silver medal in the road time trial race.


Claude E. Welch (March 14, 1906 – March 9, 1996) was an internationally recognized surgeon whose career spanned forty years. For most of those forty years, Welch worked at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was involved with a variety of activities that included “patient care, teaching, clinical research, establishment of funds to maintain such activities, promotion of all aspects of medical education, and strengthening of ties between the government, the courts, the legal profession and physicians.” Known as a “bold and skillful surgeon in the abdomen,” Welch performed anywhere between 15,000 and 20,000 procedures by the age of 75. He served as president in 8 of the 20 medical associations to which he belonged, wrote more than 200 articles and chapters, authored or edited six books, including his own autobiography, developed a safe technique for performing a duodenostomy, and was one of only six physicians summoned to Rome to consult about the treatment of Pope John Paul II when he was shot in 1981. While there is no doubt about his skill with a scalpel, he set himself apart from other surgeons by establishing and maintaining a superb rapport with his patients – something he considered essential to good patient care. Beyond the operating room, Welch fought for racial equality at the American Medical Association (AMA) and to establish standards for American Medical Practice. Welch considered these items among some of the most important things he did. “His intelligence, diligence, attention to detail, restraint leavened with generosity, caring and a touch of humor brought him the trust of his peers and a succession of assignments, the summation of which truly characterizes him as one of the great surgical statesmen America has produced.”


Jeff Schalk (born February 6, 1974 in Santa Cruz, California) is a retired professional mountain bike racer. His racing career began in 2006 when he took hiatus from a career in structural engineering, practicing in San Francisco, California. He moved to Washington, D.C. to pursue racing full-time with the Trek Volkswagen East Coast factory team. Schalk's major career breakthrough occurred in 2007 when he won the Shenandoah 100, establishing himself as a primary name in the domestic MTB endurance scene. When the Trek and Volkswagen partnership dissolved at the end of 2008, the Trek Bicycle Corporation continued its support of Jeff by directly signing him to full sponsorship. After his breakthrough in 2007, he moved to Frederick, Maryland and began to specialize in ultra-endurance racing events, namely 100-mile mountain bike races. Over the course of his 6 year career, he amassed 17 wins in 100-mile MTB racing, winning the National Ultra Endurance Series for three consecutive years. Schalk's sponsors for the majority of his career included: Trek Bicycle Corporation, Bontrager, Fox Racing Shox, Shimano, PowerBar, Dumonde Tech Racing Oils, and ESI Grips. All of his racing victories came aboard Trek's flagship cross country race bike at the time, the Trek Top Fuel. He retired from racing at the end of the 2011 season, returning to his career in structural engineering. He currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and works for JVA Consulting Engineers.


Crystal Nix-Hines (born 1963) is the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of ambassador. Ambassador Nix-Hines was previously Of Counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in Los Angeles. Previously, she was Of Counsel at Fairbank & Vincent from 2006 to 2007, Special Counsel in the Litigation Department of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP from 1997 to 2000, and Assistant to the General Counsel/Senior Vice President of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1992 to 1993. From 1993 to 1997, she held several positions at the State Department, including Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Member of the Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser. From 1991 to 1992, she clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme Court. She also clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1990 to 1991. During her career, Nix-Hines has also been a writer and producer on several network television shows such as Commander-in-Chief, Alias, and The Practice. She began her career as a reporter for the New York Times (in his memoir The Times of My Life and My Life at the Times, former Times executive editor Max Frankel wrote that in leaving journalism for law, Ms. Nix had “left a promising reporting career.”) On July 9, 2013, Crystal Nix-Hines was nominated by President Obama to the position of United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of ambassador. Nix-Hines was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 12, 2014.


Diane Schöler (née Rowe on 14 April 1933) is a retired table tennis player from England. In 1966 she married German table tennis player Eberhard Schöler, and since then competed for West Germany. From 1951 to 1972 she won several medals in single, double, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships, and in the World Table Tennis Championships. Rowe started training in table tennis aged 14, under Viktor Barna. She is left-handed and until 1951 played a defensive style, but later put more accent on attacking. In early 1966, she married Eberhard Schöler and moved to Düsseldorf, where she gave birth to a daughter. She retired from competitions in 1973 and until 1997 worked as a table tennis coach. In 1993 she received the ITTF Merit Award, and in 2001 the Dieter Mauritz Gedächtnispreis. Diane has a twin sister, Rosalind Rowe, who was also an international table tennis player and often played doubles together with Diane. In 1955 they published a book The twins on table tennis. Their father was former amateur footballer Vivian Rowe.


Eugene Lewis Freese (January 8, 1934 – June 18, 2013) was a third baseman in American Major League Baseball for 12 seasons (1955-1966). A journeyman, he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (twice), St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox (twice), Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, batting .254 with 115 home runs in 1,115 games. He batted and threw right-handed. Despite his well-traveled resume, Freese was an important cog on the 1961 National League champion Reds. Acquired in an off-season interleague deal with the White Sox, Freese reached career highs in home runs (26) and RBI (87) and played 151 games at third base as Cincinnati won its first pennant since 1940. In the 1961 World Series, won by the New York Yankees in five games, Freese hit only 1-of-16, including being the victim of one of two spectacular defensive plays by third-base counterpart Clete Boyer in the Series opener. The following spring, Freese broke an ankle during a spring training intrasquad game and missed almost the entire 1962 season. He never regained his 1961 form, although he stayed in the Majors through 1966. His older brother, George Freese, briefly played Major League baseball and was a longtime scout and minor league manager. Freese died on June 18, 2013.


Jean Despres (1903–1988) was a perfume industry businessman, known for his work with Coty, Inc. The French-born Jean Despres came to New York in 1921 working for Coty Inc. Starting as a shipping clerk, he went on to become a travelling salesman, covering thousands of miles on the Santa Fe Railroad across America to sell Coty perfumes and gift sets. He soon became a sales manager, and in 1942 was appointed Executive Vice President of Coty, Inc. He held this position for more than 25 years when Pfizer purchased Coty in 1968. Coty, Inc., was a French perfume company created by wealthyFrançois Coty, proprietor of Le Figaro, the French daily newspaper headquartered on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France and owner of numerous chateaux and villas in France and Corsica. Coty died in 1934. Jean Despres led Coty in New York with Philippe Cortney, brother-in-law of Mrs.Coty-Cotnareanu. He founded the Fragrance Foundation in New York, for the perfume industry,serving as its president. When he retired he appointed Anette Greene. He was a founder of the Toilet Goods Association Inc., Washington, D.C. and served as its president in the 1960s, attending its annual meetings until 1987, a year before his death. With the expansion of department stores in the 1930s and 1940s, he created \"in-store\" displays and \"in-store\" merchandising staff, which evolved into the cosmetics counters of today. He was a founding member of the Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards, along with Grover Whalen, created to encourage and honor American talent and American fashion designers. The awards presentation ceremony initially took place at the Metropolitan Club (where he was a member for 50 years) subsequently moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and eventually held at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. He joined the New York Athletic Club when it opened in 1924, was a director of the French Hospital in New York City, of Coty International,the French-American Chamber of Commerce, Compagnie de St. Gobain and Lilly Dache, Inc., a Chevalier of the Confrerie des Chevaliers de Tastevin, and resident of New York City, Poundridge, NY, Delray Beach, Florida and Meudon, France. In the 1940s he became an American Citizen. Despres married milliner and fashion designer Lilly Daché in Palm Beach, Florida on March 13, 1931, a happy, loving marriage for more than 53 years.


Sina Samadi better known by his stage name Sean Banan (Banan means Banana, appears to be a pun of his name) is a Swedish comedian and musician of Iranian origin. His family immigrated to Sweden when he was just 2 years old and resided in Gothenburg. Banan took lessons in rumba, flamenco, rock, cha-cha-cha, ballet and street dance. He then worked as a choreographer and dance instructor. In 2006, he appeared on TV3's now defunct dance programme Floor Filler. He became an immediate internet phenomenon after appearing in an interview in 2007 after answering some questions about his preferences and said he preferred \"rumpa\" (buttocks) to breasts. \"Rumpa\" became a catch phrase he would use in many of his future gigs. He played a travelling reporter in the 2010 comedy television show Cirkus Möller that aired on TV4. The same year he took part in the Kanal 5's programme Djävulsrallyt in its third series. His 2010 single \"Skaka Rumpa\" was released on 16 June 2010 and entered the Swedish Singles Chart at No. 13 in its first week, topping at No. 8 the following week. Banan took part in Melodifestivalen 2012 with \"Sean den förste Banan\" that passed the Semi-final stage, but was eliminated in the \"Second Chance\" round without reaching the finals. But despite this, the song proved very popular reaching number 3 on Sverigetopplistan, the official Swedish Singles Chart. In Melodifestivalen 2013 he took part with \"Copacabanana\". After performing in the semi-final in Scandinavium, Gothenburg, he came 1st and qualified directly to the final, where he finished in 6th place. Sean Banan's first film Sean Banan inuti Seanfrika was released in 2012 and was panned by critics.


Joshua Mark Thomas is an accomplished interior designer and photographer. He was born in Montana, possibly Proctor, on August 21, 1973 to Mark & Dianne Thomas. After various moves throughout the country, including to New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, he settled in Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended the Savannah College of Art & Design. Joshua's early career including the design and manufacture of detailed, high-end dresses and costumes for ballroom dancers, and his clients included many of the countries top dancers who are still performing professionally today. He was an on-air cast member of HGTV's Designed to Sell for all Atlanta seasons and is the current photographer for HGTV's Curb Appeal. Joshua's textile work has also been featured on The Today Show, HGTV's Designed to Sell, and with various John Gidding Design Inc. projects, including at the upscale furniture store, Artefacto (currently in their Atlanta, GA Style House). His work has also recently been in Loft Life magazine, which shows both his textiles as part of the Artefacto Style House and his photography, as credited in the article, in Jezebel magazine, where he's shown as part of the Designed to Sell cast, and in Atlanta Woman's Magazine, which shows his textile work as part of Designed to Sell, as well as crediting his photography work. In 2009, his work (both photography and textiles) was featured in the remodel of Carrie Fisher's dressing room at Studio 54 for her production of Wishful Drinking. He also owns a textile and design firm named J Thomas Design and a fine art photography business, J Thomas Fine Art. His textile work has appeared on almost every episode of seasons 25 - 28 of Designed to Sell.


Marcos Alejandro Pagliere-Torregrosa is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He had his first experience with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA in Bayamon, Puerto Rico where UFC 8 took place. Torregrosa began training in July 1999. Once he began, he knew this was his calling and gave it his all, training two practices a day. Torregrosa was awarded a black belt under Cassio Werneck. In 2008 Torregrosa became the head instructor at Capital City Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. While teaching at Capital City Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Torregrosa developed Yemaso Jiu-Jitsu, a style of Jiu-Jitsu designed to bring success at competitions. Torregrosa founded Team Yemaso in 2009, which consisted of a small team of his best students. Team Yemaso, found much success in local, regional and world tournaments. Team Yemaso has acquired many team titles in a short period due to the focus and efficiency stressed in class. In May 2011 Torregrosa became a member of Team Lloyd Irvin and, in August 2011 decided, to open his own Brazilian Jiu Jitsu school in the Sacramento area. As of 2013 Torregrosa no longer affiliates himself with any team other than Yemaso Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and in February, Torregrosa and Team Yemaso made history and became the first team in the greater Sacramento, CA area to win an International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) Team Title. As of September 2013 Torregrosa receives his Second Degree Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu from the IBJJF and closes out the 2013 year as the number one ranked black belt in both his division ( Leve/Light Weight) and Absolute ( all weight divisions)with the kimono. He also holds the number one ranking without the kimono ( no gi) in his division (Leve/Light Weight) and is ranked 9th overall Absolute no gi completing his most productive year to date as a black belt. In February 2014 Torregrosa leads his team to a second place team title for the second consecutive year at an IBJJF event. In February 2015 Team Yemaso competed and brought back to Sacramento, CA their third team title (3rd place) at an IBJJF event under the guidance of Torregrosa.


Peter Tyndall Walwyn MBE (born 1 July 1933) is a retired British racehorse trainer. He was based at stables in the Lambourn, Berkshire, area and enjoyed his period of greatest success in the mid-1970s when he was British flat racing Champion Trainer twice. Walwyn comes from a racing family - he is the cousin of trainer Fulke Walwyn. He was educated at Charterhouse School and his first job in racing was as assistant to trainer Geoffrey Brooke. He then held the licence for Helen Johnson Houghton, twin sister to Fulke Walwyn (women were not recognised as licensed trainers by the Jockey Club in those days). In October 1960 he took out a licence to train and in 1965 he moved to the stables at Seven Barrows where he spent the majority of his career. Towards the end of his career he moved to Windsor House stables in Lambourn. His principal stable jockeys were Duncan Keith, Pat Eddery and Joe Mercer. He was one of the leading trainers in Britain during the 1970s, winning the Champion Trainer title in both 1974 and 1975. The most notable horse he trained was Grundy, winner of the Epsom Derby, Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1975. He retired as a trainer in 1999 but remains involved in horse racing organisations, and as at February 2011 is Chairman of the Lambourn Trainers Association. He was elected to honorary membership of the Jockey Club on his retirement. Walwyn was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to horseracing.


Ruth Elizabeth Harkness (21 September 1900 - 20 July 1947) was an American fashion designer and socialite, who traveled to China in 1936 and brought back the first live giant panda to the United States - not in a cage, or on a leash, but wrapped in her arms. Harkness was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania. In 1934, her husband Bill Harkness had traveled to China in search of a panda, but died of throat cancer in Shanghai early in 1936. His widow Ruth, then living in New York City, decided to complete the mission herself. Harkness traveled to Shanghai, and with the help of a Chinese-American explorer named Quentin Young, and Gerald Russell, a British naturalist, launched her own panda mission. After passing through Chongqing and Chengdu, the team arrived at a mountainous region, where, on 9 November 1936, they encountered and captured a nine-week-old panda cub. The panda, which they named Su Lin after Young's sister-in-law, was bottle-fed baby formula on the journey back to Shanghai and the United States. The panda caused a great sensation in the American press and eventually ended up at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. Harkness launched two subsequent expeditions in search of the giant panda. Harkness brought back a second panda, Mei-Mei, in 1937. She did not return with a giant panda on her third and final expedition. Following her time in China and the success of her book about her adventure with Su Lin, The Lady and the Panda, Harkness travelled Peru, where she chronicled her adventures in Pangoan Diary, and Mexico, where she wrote for Gourmet magazine.


(This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Mondim and the second or paternal family name is Saleiro.) Carlos Miguel Mondim Saleiro (born 25 February 1986) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward; he was released by English League One club Port Vale in August 2016. The first baby in Portugal to be born through in vitro fertilisation treatment (IVF), he began his career at Sporting CP. He played for Sporting B in the 2003–04 season, and won caps at every level of Portuguese international football from under-17 to under-23. He helped his country to win the UEFA European Under-17 Championship in 2003 and the International Challenge Trophy in 2009–11. He was loaned out to Olivais e Moscavide from 2005 to 2007, and helped the club to win promotion out of the Segunda Divisão in 2005–06. He spent the 2007–08 season on loan at Fátima, and was loaned out to Primeira Liga clubs Vitória Setúbal and Académica in the 2008–09 campaign. He made his first team debut for Sporting CP in August 2009, and went on to make 67 first team appearances in two seasons before he moved to Swiss Super League side Servette in July 2011. He signed with Académica in June 2012, and then after a year out of the game joined Oriental in July 2014. He signed with English club Port Vale in July 2016, but left after just six weeks.


Herbert Fitzgibbon (born July 14, 1942) is a former tennis player who was nationally ranked in the 1960s and 1970s. Fitzgibbon played four years of high school tennis for Garden City High School and never lost a match. He played collegiate tennis at Princeton University and was a gold and bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 when tennis was a demonstration sport. Fitzgibbon won the singles title at the tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1964 and was a two-time singles runner-up (1965 and 1963) there as well. He also reached the Cincinnati doubles final with Butch Newman in 1965. That year, he also won the Long Island Championships and the Eastern Clay Court title. In 1968, Fitzgibbon won against 16th-seeded Nikola Pilić in the first round at Wimbledon, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–2. Fitzgibbon also was an accomplished platform tennis player, winning national doubles titles in 1974 with John Beck and in 1977 and 1978 with Hank Irvine. In 1974, Fitzgibbon and Beck defeated Keith Jennings and Chauncey Steele III 7–5, 4–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–2. In 1977, Fitzgibbon and Irvine defeated Gordon Gray and Doug Russell 6–3, 7–5, 1–6, 6–4. Fitzgibbon and Irvine also played in the 1980 National Championship final losing to Steve Baird and Rich Maier 6–1, 3–6, 7–6, 6–7, 6–3 Fitzgibbon authored the book The Complete Racquet Sports Player.


Mats Wilander (born 22 August 1964) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 to 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at the French Open, three at the Australian Open, and one at the US Open), and one Grand Slam men's doubles title (at Wimbledon). In 1988, Wilander won three of the four Grand Slam singles events and finished that year ranked World No. 1. Although he never won the singles title at Wimbledon, Wilander twice won the Australian Open when that tournament was still played on grass courts. This makes Wilander one of only six men (along with Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic) to have won Grand Slam singles titles on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts. He and Rafael Nadal are the only men in tennis history to have won at least two Grand Slam singles titles on each of the three surfaces (2 Australian when it was played on grass prior to 1988, 1 Australian and 1 US on hard and 3 French on clay). Wilander won his fourth Grand Slam singles title at the age of 20, the youngest man in history to have achieved that feat. In addition he also won eight Grand Prix Super Series titles (1983–88) the precursors to the current Masters 1000. He won 33 singles titles and seven doubles titles during his career. He was also a driving force behind Sweden's run of seven consecutive Davis Cup finals in the 1980s. In 2002, Wilander was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.


Deidre Catt (born 4 July 1940), is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the final of the doubles event at the 1960 U.S. Championships. Partnering compatriot Ann Haydon they lost the final in straight sets to Maria Bueno and Darlene Hard. Her best Grand Slam singles performance was reaching the semifinal of the 1963 U.S. Championships in which she lost to Margaret Court, having beaten Billie-Jean Moffit King in the last 16. At the Wimbledon Championships she reached the fourth round in 1962 and 1964. Between 1961 and 1964 Catt played in four Wightman Cups, a women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. During the 1962 Wightman Cup she defeated Nancy Richey. From 1963 to 1965 she was a member of the British Federation Cup team and compiled a record of six wins and two losses. In 1960 she won the All England Plate, a tennis competition held at the Wimbledon Championships for players who were defeated in the first or second rounds of the singles competition. In the final she was victorious against Lorna Cawthorn. In that year she also won the West of England championships at Bristol by beating Sandra Reynolds in the second round and Renée Schuurman in the final. In 1961 and 1963 she won the singles title at the Surrey Grass Court Championships in Surbiton, defeating Edda Buding and Darlene Hard in the respective finals. Catt was a runner-up at the British Hard Court Championships in 1961, losing the final to Angela Mortimer in straight sets. Catt became the singles champion at the 1963 British Covered Court Championships after a three-sets victories in the semifinal against Ann Jones and the final against Renée Schuurman. Partnering Elizabeth Starkie she reached the doubles final of the 1963 Pacific Coast Championships in which they were beaten by Maria Bueno and Darlene Hard. In November 1964 she married John Keller.


John Rhodes (born Wolverhampton, Staffordshire on 18 August 1927 ) is a British former racing driver from England, who participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1965 British Grand Prix, at Silverstone on 10 July 1965, from which he retired on lap 39 with ignition problems. His Cooper-Climax T60 was provided for him by veteran racer Bob Gerard.In 1961 he drove a Cooper-B.M.C. Formula Junior car for the Midland Racing Partnership, winning a long race on the Phoenix Park circuit in Dublin on 22 July, and the Dunboyne Trophy on 29 July. On 11 June 1962, he drove Bob Gerard's Cooper-Ford in the 2,000 Guineas F1 race at Mallory Park. Rhodes soldiered on with the Cooper-B.M.C. FJ car in 1963 when the Ford engine was required to win. That year he competed in a works Mini-Cooper 'S' type in saloon car racing, finishing 8th with Rob Slotemaker in The Motor International Six-Hour Saloon-Car Race at Brands Hatch on 6 July. In 1965 Rhodes continued with the Mini, taking fourth place, among the big bangers, in the Ilford Films Trophy at Brands Hatch on 13 March. He failed to finish in the BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone in Bob Gerard's Cooper-Ford on 15 May 1965.At Le Mans in 1965 John Rhodes, with Paul Hawkins, finished twelfth overall, and first in class, in a 1.3-litre Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite entered by the Donald Healey Motor Company, completing 278 laps. In 1966 at the Targa Florio, Rhodes partnered with Timo Makinen, finished ninth overall and won the class in an M.G.B.


André Léon Tonnoir (9 April 1885 – 30 January 1940), was a Belgian entomologist. Born in Brussels, Tonnoir studied engineering followed by radiology at university. He worked as a technician during World War I, and after the war had ended he worked with the entomology staff at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. Tonnoir focused in the area of Diptera and worked for the museum until 1921. He was then persuaded by Robert Tillyard to visit Australia for entomology work there. Soon afterwards, he left for Nelson in New Zealand to do research for the Cawthron Institute until 1924. In the same year, he moved to Christchurch for two new roles; curator at the Canterbury Museum and lecturer at Canterbury College. In 1926, he went back to work for three years at the Cawthron Institute as part of their noxious weeds programme. He eventually went back to Australia, working in Canberra as a Senior Ecologist and Curator. In Canberra he ate a lot of ice cream, and therefore they called him the \"ICE-KING\".


Walter \"Wally\" Gould (born 25 September 1938 in Thrybergh, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire) is an English former professional footballer who made nearly 300 appearances and scored 71 goals in the Football League playing as a winger or forward for Sheffield United, York City and Brighton & Hove Albion. He later played for Durban United and Hellenic in South Africa. Wally Gould arrived on the Stoke City coaching staff at the start of the 1977–78 season to team up with George Eastham who had become manager. He was reserve team coach when Cyril Lea resigned in New Year 1980. Wally then stepped up to be number two to Alan Durban. He subsequently served Richie Barker when he became manager, but left in March 1982. There were rumoured to be differences between Gould and some of the senior players at this time, with one `training ground incident` resulting in Ray Evans, the captain, being suspended for two weeks. Days later Gould was replaced by Bill Asprey.


Julie Beth Johnston (born April 6, 1992) is an American soccer player and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. She is currently a defender for the United States women's national soccer team as well as the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League, the highest division of women's professional soccer in the United States. She first appeared for the United States national team during an international friendly against Scotland on February 9, 2013. She has since made 41 total appearances for the team and scored eight goals. Johnston has represented the United States at one FIFA Women's World Cup tournament in 2015. At 23, she was the second youngest member of the team behind 22-year-old Morgan Brian. In the 59th minute of the team's semifinal match against Germany on June 30, Johnston pulled down Germany's Alexandra Popp inside the penalty box and was given a yellow card. Celia Sasic of Germany took the subsequent penalty kick but missed the net. The United States went on to win the match 2–0 to advance to the World Cup final. Johnston played every minute of all seven games of the World Cup and was subsequently named to the FIFA Women's World Cup All-Star Team. Johnston played collegiate soccer with the Santa Clara University Broncos from 2010 to 2013. Following her collegiate career, Johnston was selected third overall by the Chicago Red Stars in the 2014 NWSL College Draft that took place on January 17, 2014. She is currently in her third season with the Red Stars.


Yiannis Evangelides was a Greek fashion designer. Evangelides was born in Cyprus and moved to Athens when he was 18. He married Vasso Kourtidi. Evangelides originally intended to become a pianist, but after designing dresses for his wife which she had made up by her dressmaker, he decided to go into fashion design. Before World War II broke out in 1939, Evangelides was a couturier in Athens for 20 years. Among his clients was the future Queen of Greece, Frederica of Hanover, who Evangelides described in 1958 as his easiest, least demanding client. Frederica patronised Evangelides between 1938 and 1945. His first New York show was held in January 1940, showing pleated gowns in blue and terracotta, with short decorative jackets and draped scarves directly referencing Greek folk costume. In 1951 Evangelides had returned to New York, where he planned to stay and establish himself as a designer, not just of couture, but of ready-to-wear for the wholesale market. Alongside his twenty years' experience in high end fashion design, he had also worked for five years as a designer for a wholesaler's in Capetown, California. In 1954 Evangelides became a designer for the custom salon at Bonwit Teller, where his dresses, presented alongside imported Paris gowns, were noted for their use of tucks and pleats. In 1958, Evangelides owned a dress shop on East 57th Street, titled \"Yanni\". He offered his first ready-to-wear collection in 1958.


Jim Beardmore is a former All-American lacrosse goalie, and coach. He was formerly the head coach for the Hamburg Warriors B-Team. He is the son of former University of Maryland coach and Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee Clayton \"Buddy\" Beardmore. Beardmore attended University of Maryland after graduating from The Severn School in Severna Park, MD. In 1987 was awarded the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the NCAA's Goalie of the Year. In addition, Beardmore was named a first team All-American, Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, and received first-team All-ACC mention. Beardmore played five seasons in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League with the Washington Wave and the Pittsburgh Bulls. Beardmore served as head coach for the Denver Outlaws of the Major League Lacrosse in the 2007 MLL season. In addition, he has served as head coach for a number of high schools, including Severna Park, and is director of Nike Lacrosse Summer Camps and All-American Sports Camps. He served as Head Lacrosse Coach for Colorado Academy during the school's 2008 season. Currently is the Assistant Head Lacrosse Coach for Pensacola High School.


Hugh MacDonald (born April 28, 1985 in Belleville, New Jersey) is an American soccer defender who was last rostered with New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. MacDonald grew up in Kearny, New Jersey, and attended Kearny High School, which produced former United States internationals including John Harkes, Tony Meola and Tab Ramos. He led Kearny to the state championship game as a junior in 2001, and won the championship as a senior in 2002. MacDonald spent two years at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he helped the team to the Colonial Athletic Association championship both years, 2003 and 2004. He transferred to Monmouth University, where he won the Northeast Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2005 and 2006, and led Monmouth to its first ever NCAA Men's Soccer Championship appearance. At some point, MacDonald played for the Richmond Kickers Future of the Premier Development League. MacDonald was not drafted by any Major League Soccer club in 2007. He signed a developmental contract with New York Red Bulls in March 2007 after spending the preseason with the club. He never appeared in a first-team match and was released by the club on June 29, 2007. MacDonald is currently an assistant men's soccer coach at Monmouth University. MacDonald added to his athletic legacy in April 2013, helping lead his team to the intramural basketball playoffs at Monmouth.


Earl Dalton Mossor (July 21, 1925 – December 29, 1988) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in three games for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1951 season. Listed at 6' 1\", 175 lb., Mossor batted left handed and threw right handed. A single in his only at-bat left Mossor with a rare MLB career batting average of 1.000. He was born in Forbus, Tennessee. Mossor also pitched with several Minor league teams in 12 seasons spanning 1946–1959. In 1946, he would go 21-8 while pitching 239 innings for the Clinton Blues in the Tobacco State League, but his team lost the league title by a half-game and was also beaten in the final round of the playoffs, four to three games. His most productive campaign came in 1950 with the Portsmouth Cubs, when he posted a 20-11 record and a 2.98 ERA in a career-high 257 innings, helping his team to the Piedmont League pennant and putting him on the All-Star team. Mossor also pitched for the Cervecería Caracas club of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in the 1951–1952 and 1952–1953 tournaments, compiling an undefeated 10-0 record and a 2.74 ERA in both stints, while leading his team to the VPBL pennant in 1952–1953. Following his baseball career, Mossor worked as a sheet metal mechanic. He died in 1988 in Batavia, Ohio, at the age of 63.


Chingiz Sadykhov (born 5 April 1929, Baku), is a pianist from Azerbaijan. He graduated from Bul-Bul Musical School in Baku and Azerbaijani State Conservatory. Mr. Sadykhov further studied for PhD degree in Moscow Conservatory under professor Goldenveyser. Then he returned to Baku where he lived until 1994 before migration to the United States. He currently resides in San Francisco. Initially Chingiz Sadykhov played classical music but later switched to Azerbaijani one. He has spent much of his life accompanying Azerbaijan's most prominent singers, including Bulbul, the founder of Azerbaijan's professional vocal school; Rashid Behbudov, the singer who most often represented Azerbaijan throughout the world during the Soviet period; and Muslim Magomayev (born 1942), one of the former Soviet Union's best-known pop stars. When asked how many songs are in his repertoire, Chingiz readily admits that there are so many that he wouldn't know where to start counting.


Li Furong (born 1942 in Shanghai, China) was a Chinese male table tennis player. He was a native of Zhejiang province starting to play table tennis at 15 and joined national team in 1959. Li helped the Chinese men's team win four team titles at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1971. In men's singles competitions, he made 3 consecutive appearances at the finals of the World Championships in 1961, 1963, and 1965. However, Li lost to compatriot Zhuang Zedong in all of the three finals, making himself become one of four players who played in three finals without winning (together with Hungarian Laszlo Bellak, Polish Alojzy Ehrlich and countryman Ma Lin). Rumor had it that Li's losses at the finals were prearranged. The 1961 Championships was referred as the commencement of match fixing in history of Chinese table tennis. In 1999, Li was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame. Li became the president of Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) in 2001. The post was succeeded by Cai Zhenhua in 2009 and Li was awarded the ATTU Honorary Life President in 2010.


Henry Bowyer Joseph Lane (1817–1878) was an English architect who worked in Toronto from c. 1841 to 1847. Lane was born to Henry Bower Lane, a Royal Artillery Captain and Elizabeth Lacey in 1817 and moved to Devon, England after 1819. Lane's education included time at Blundell's School in Tiverton and subsequent professional training in England before he emigrated to Canada in 1841, living first in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and then in Toronto. One of Lane's most significant contributions is Osgoode Hall, namely the west and central wings from 1844-1846. He designed and oversaw the construction of the incorporated city of Toronto's second city hall in 1844. Lane's limited commissions outside of Toronto, in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Cobourg, were never as grand as his work in Toronto. During his time in Toronto, Lane married Lucy Anne Sharpe in 1844, and they left the city in 1847. He is believed to have died in Birmingham, England in 1878.


Wang Yue (born 31 March 1987) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2004, he became China's 18th Grandmaster at the age of 17. He is China's first player ever to break into the top 10 of FIDE World Rankings and was the highest-ever rated Chinese player, with a peak rating of 2756, until August 2015, when this record was broken by Ding Liren. In October 2007, Wang became the first Chinese player and third Asian player to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark. In October 2008, he became the World No. 11, the highest ranking a Chinese player has ever achieved, surpassing the previous record of 17th by Ye Jiangchuan set in 2000. In January 2010, he became the first Chinese world top-ten player with a world ranking of 9. His highest world ranking to date is No. 8 in the May 2010 rating list with a rating of 2752. In the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010, he was a last round victory over Teimour Radjabov away from joining Levon Aronian as an automatic qualifier for the Candidates Tournament of the World Chess Championship 2012 cycle; however, Radjabov secured a draw which allowed him to win the final qualifying position. Wang Yue was the top board of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 2014 Chess Olympiad.


Terence McCulley is the current United States Ambassador to The Ivory Coast and a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Minister-Counselor. McCulley was nominated by President Barack Obama to this post on June 26, 2013, and presented his credentials to Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on November 21, 2013. Previously, McCulley was Ambassador to Nigeria from 2010 to 2013. Before that, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark from 2008-2010 and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Mali from 2005-2008. From 2004-2005, he worked at the State Department in Washington, helping to coordinate reconstruction efforts in Iraq. He has been the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassies in Togo, Senegal, and Tunisia and also served as Consul in Mumbai, India. Joining the Foreign Service in 1985, McCulley started his career in Niger, followed by assignments in South Africa and Chad. Returning to Washington in 1993, he worked for two years on Central African affairs. According to the State Department, McCulley is the recipient of four Department of State Superior Honor Awards. Ambassador McCulley was born in Medford, Oregon, and grew up in Eugene, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in European History and French Language and Literature from the University of Oregon. As a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow, he studied political science at the Université de Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France. In addition, he attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. McCulley is fluent in French. Married to Renée McCulley, the couple have two sons.


Oscar Ruffini (1858–1957) was an architect in San Angelo, Texas. He worked some with architect brother Frederick Ernst Ruffini. A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works include (with attribution): \n* Concho County Courthouse, Public Sq. Paint Rock, TX Ruffini, F.E. and Ruffini, Oscar \n* Crockett County Courthouse, 907 Ave. D Ozona, TX Ruffini, Oscar \n* Harris Drug Store, 114 S. Chadbourne St. San Angelo, TX Ruffini, Oscar \n* Mason-Hughes House, 1104 W. Beauregard San Angelo, TX Ruffini, Oscar \n* Montgomery Ward Building, 10 W. Beauregard San Angelo, TX Ruffini, Oscar \n* J. J. Rackley Building, 118 S. Chadbourne San Angelo, TX Ruffini, Oscar \n* San Angelo National Bank, Johnson and Taylor, and Schwartz and Raas Buildings, 20–22, 24, 26 E. Concho Ave. San Angelo, TX Lillis, Ruffini & Ruffini \n* Sutton County Courthouse, Public Sq. Sonora, TX Ruffini, Oscar \n* Tom Green County Jail, US 67 San Angelo, TX Ruffini, Oscar


Walter Marty \"Wally\" Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007), (Capt, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, United States first effort to put humans in space. He flew the six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962, becoming the fifth American, and the ninth human, to ride a rocket into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module. He was the first person to go into space three times, and the only person to have flown in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, logging a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. He retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Captain and from NASA after his Apollo flight, becoming a consultant to CBS News for its coverage of the subsequent Apollo flights. He joined Walter Cronkite as co-anchor for the seven Moon landing missions. Schirra died at the age of 84 on May 3, 2007 of a heart attack while undergoing treatment for abdominal cancer.


Thomas Codrington (1829, Wroughton, Wiltshire - 1918) was a British engineer and antiquarian of the late Victorian era. With a career background as an Inspector for local government, he published several known works. First was Report on the Destruction of Town Refuse, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1888. This was only a short pamphlet of 48 pages, including illustrations of furnaces in use at the time. Codrington went on to write the slightly more substantial 172 page work The Maintenance of Macadamised Roads in 1879, published by E. & F.N. Spon. However, by far Codrington's most famous work was also one of his last. Roman roads in Britain, published originally in 1903, was the first attempt by any author to catalogue fully the evident remains of the Roman transport network in the United Kingdom. Several further editions were subsequently published, and indeed reprinted. The last of these was a reprint of the 3rd edition in 1928.


Johan Bruyneel (born 23 August 1964) is a former road bicycle racer in professional cycling and a former directeur sportif for UCI ProTour team RadioShack–Nissan. Retiring from racing in 1998, he became director of U.S. Postal Service (later known as Discovery Channel), a US-based UCI ProTour cycling team. Following the 2007 season, the team disbanded and Bruyneel became the director of the Astana team beginning in 2008, and achieved victories in each of cycling's Grand Tours with Contador with Astana. He participated in two Tour de France wins with Discovery and Astana, with Alberto Contador in 2007 and 2009. Bruyneel left his position at RadioShack–Nissan on 12 October 2012 in the wake of the publication of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) decision into the investigation of Lance Armstrong. In April 2014, the USADA banned Bruyneel from any type of involvement in sanctioned competitions for 10 years.


Samuel \"Sam\" Perkins (born June 14, 1961) is an American retired professional basketball player. He won a gold medal with the US national team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Known by the nicknames \"Sleepy Sam\" and \"Big Smooth\", he attended Samuel J. Tilden High School, Shaker High School and the University of North Carolina, where he was a teammate of future Hall of Famers James Worthy and Michael Jordan. A member of the 1982 NCAA Tournament championship winning Tar Heel squad, he was selected with the fourth pick of the 1984 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks and played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2001. In 2008, Perkins was named vice president of player relations for the Indiana Pacers, for whom he played from 1999–2001. In September 2008, Perkins was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame along with NBA stars Kenny Anderson and Rod Strickland, coach Pete Gillen and pioneers Lou Bender and Eddie Younger. In October 2011, Perkins also traveled to South Sudan as a SportsUnited Sports Envoy for the U.S. Department of State. In this function, he worked with Dikembe Mutombo to lead a series of basketball clinics and team building exercises with 50 youth and 36 coaches. This helped contribute to the State Department's mission to remove barriers and create a world in which individuals with disabilities enjoy dignity and full inclusion in society.


Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. Degeneres starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003. Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s, culminating in a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson likened her to Bob Newhart, and invited her for an onscreen chat after her set; DeGeneres was the first female comedian invited by the iconic host to join him for such a discussion, at a time when such an invitation was widely regarded as one of the most influential endorsements available for a comic. As a film actress, DeGeneres starred in Mr. Wrong (1996), appeared in EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016); for Nemo, she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. In 2010 she was a judge on American Idol for its ninth season. She starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, she came out as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterward, her character, Ellen Morgan, also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues, including the coming-out process. This made her the first openly lesbian actress to play an openly lesbian character on television. In 2008, she married her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi. DeGeneres has hosted the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Primetime Emmys. She has authored three books and started her own record company, Eleveneleven. She has won 13 Emmys, 14 People's Choice Awards, and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts.


Sunaura \"Sunny\" Taylor (born March 21, 1982) is an American painter and activist for disability and animal rights. She currently resides in Oakland, California, and has taught classes at the University of California, Berkeley. She was born in Tucson, Arizona. Taylor's work has been displayed in the Smithsonian and in other important galleries across the United States. She is the recipient of a 2008 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. In 2004, she received the Grand Prize in the VSA arts Driving Force juried exhibition for emerging disabled artists. A portion of her work deals with animal rights issues, as Taylor is an abolitionist vegan. Taylor was born with arthrogryposis, and uses a wheelchair. She is active in the Society for Disability Studies and has participated in marches for disability rights. Her work on the disability rights movement has appeared in the Marxist magazine Monthly Review, and her Self Portrait with TCE was the first full-color image ever printed in the publication's long history. She has been featured on All Things Considered on National Public Radio, and the Georgia Public Television series State of the Arts. Her work has also been featured frequently in Flagpole Magazine in her home town, Athens, Georgia. Taylor argued her position against animal products in her February 17, 2009 article titled \"Is It Possible to Be a Conscientious Meat Eater?\". Taylor is also the sister of the filmmaker Astra Taylor, and appeared in her 2008 film Examined Life alongside philosopher Judith Butler.


Edward Everts Browne (February 16, 1868 – November 23, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Waupaca, Wisconsin, Browne attended the public schools and Waupaca High School.He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1890 and from the law department of the same university in 1892.He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Waupaca, Wisconsin.He served as district attorney of Waupaca County 1898–1905.He served as delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1902, 1904, and 1906.He served as member of the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1905 and 1906.He served as member of the Wisconsin State Senate 1907–1912. Browne was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1931).He represented Wisconsin's 8th congressional district. On April 5, 1917, he was one of the 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany.He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930.He resumed the practice of law.He served as member of the State conservation commission 1936-1941.He died in Evanston, Illinois, November 23, 1945.He was interred in Lakeside Cemetery, Waupaca, Wisconsin. His father, Edward L. Browne, had been a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and his uncle, Charles E. Browne, was a member of the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory.


Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor  (born 13 November 1975) is a former professional female tennis player from France. Her career high singles ranking is World No. 29, which she achieved on 1 November 1999. Pitkowski won her only career WTA Tour singles final in Budapest in the spring of 1999, where she beat Cristina Torrens Valero of Spain in the final. She was also the singles runner-up at the WTA Tour tournament in Antwerp in the same year, where she lost to Justine Henin of Belgium. She has won a total of 10 singles titles on the minor International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit. She has never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam event in singles competition. She represented France in the first round of the Fed Cup in 1998 as a rookie; she saved the defending champions from losing to Belgium by defeating Sabine Appelmans 4–6, 6–4, 6–1. Pitkowski married a French professional tennis player, Olivier Malcor, who has served as a coach for Nicolas Mahut, on 7 July 2001. The couple have a son.


Daniel Simon Atherton, known as Dan Atherton (born 25 January 1982, near Salisbury), is a professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill, four cross and enduro-downhill mountain bike racing, and is a former national champion of Great Britain. He began riding BMX at the age of 15 and mountain biking a year later. From 2007 till 2011, Atherton was one third of the Animal Commençal racing team, alongside brother Gee Atherton and sister Rachel Atherton. He is now part of the Trek Factory Racing team with brother Gee, sister Rachel and old friend Marc Beaumont (Global Mountain Bike Network), and is primarily racing Enduro-downhill and occasional downhill races. Dan Atherton, along with Rachel and Gee, was the star of the web series The Atherton Project, which followed their day-to-day lives. In 2010 Atherton broke a vertebra in his neck whilst dirt jumping and has missed half of the season including the World Championships. After the 2012 season's end, Atherton won the Asia Pacific Downhill Challenge in Indonesia.


Andrew Baggaley (born 26 February 1983 in Northampton) is a professional table tennis player from Milton Keynes. Andrew Baggaley is England's leading table tennis medal winner of all time in the Commonwealth Games winning 2 gold medals in Manchester, England (2002), 1 silver medal in Melbourne, Australia (2006), 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in Delhi, India (2010) and 1 silver in Glasgow, Great Britain. He is also World Champion 2015 of Ping Pong, after beating reigning champion Maxim Shmyrev in the semi-final and Alexander Fleming in the final. He started playing the sport with his mother Yvonne in the back garden of the family home in Milton Keynes in the Summer of 1987 aged 4 and has been coached almost exclusively by his brother Stephen Baggaley throughout his career. He is a triple English Men’s Singles National Champion by winning the senior title in Sheffield in 2002, 2008 and 2010. At the time, his 2002 victory aged just 19 was the youngest winner of the Men’s Singles National Title for 40 years and he is still only one of 3 teenage winners of the title. He also became the youngest ever British Men’s Singles Champion aged 15 when he won the British Home Countries Title in Oban, Scotland (1998). Andrew Baggaley became Britain’s youngest ever professional table tennis player by signing terms to play for Brussels-based Belgian National League team TTC Logis Auderghem aged 13 (1996). He has subsequently played in national leagues across Europe including Germany, Sweden and Spain. Andrew Baggaley made his England Junior International début aged 12 in the European Cadet (Under 14) Six Nations Championships in Soham (1995), and went on to win European Youth Medals at both Cadet and Junior (Under 17) categories; England’s first medals at these prestigious events for almost a decade. He made his England Senior International début at the French Open in 1997 aged 14 and also represented England at the 44th World Table Tennis Championships in Manchester, England later that year. Baggaley has won 23 English National Junior titles and has been ranked England number 1 in every age group (Under 10,11,12,14,17,21) culminating in becoming England number 1 senior aged 20 (2003), the youngest at the time for 20 years. Baggaley has defeated many world-class players from both Europe and Asia including victories over Peter Karlsson (Sweden) and Jean-Michel Saive (Belgium) both former European Singles Champion, Chiang Peng-Lung (Chinese Taipei) the former Asian Singles Champion, Gao Ning (Singapore) the Asian Cup champion and Jörgen Persson (Sweden) the 1991 World Champion. In November 2011 Andrew Baggaley officially became the highest-ranked British player on the ITTF ranking list with a World Ranking of 142. Andrew Baggaley was the Table Tennis motion capture actor for the Xbox 360 game Kinect Sports. He was a Bid Ambassador for the London 2012 Olympics where he was selected to play in the Team GB Table Tennis team.


Judson Donald \"Jud\" Buechler (born June 19, 1968) is an American retired professional basketball player. He grew up in Poway, California and attended Poway High School, where he was a top basketball recruit as well as a Top-50 men's volleyball prospect. A sharp-shooting 6 ft 6 in guard/forward, Buechler attended the University of Arizona before being selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1990 NBA draft. His draft rights were immediately traded to the New Jersey Nets, and he spent slightly over one season with the Nets before being waived in 1991. After a brief stint with the San Antonio Spurs, he signed with the Golden State Warriors, with whom he averaged 6.2 points, 1.3 assists and 2.8 rebounds (all career highs) during the 1992–93 NBA season. However, Buechler would become best known for his four-year tenure (1994–1998) with the Chicago Bulls. With his former college teammate Steve Kerr, Buechler provided clutch shooting off the bench and played a key role during the Bulls' second three-peat (1996–1998). As the Bulls began their post-Jordan rebuilding process in 1999, Buechler signed with the Detroit Pistons, where he played for three seasons before being traded to the Phoenix Suns. Buechler ended his career with a short stint with the Orlando Magic, and he retired in 2002 with 2,385 total points. Buechler was also an All-American volleyball player at Arizona, earning the nickname \"The Judge\". His daughter Reilly, whom he has coached, is currently a volleyball player at UCLA.


Gaetano Belloni (26 August 1892 – 9 January 1980) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlights of his career were his overall win in the 1920 Giro d'Italia, the two victories in Milan–San Remo (1917 and 1920), and the three victories in the Giro di Lombardia (1915, 1918 and 1928). Belloni was born at Pizzighettone, near Cremona, and made his debut in the road cycling world in the wake of his elder brother Amleto. As an amateur, in 1914 he won the \"Small\" Giro di Lombardia and the Coppa del Re, as well as the Italian championship. Having avoided to be called to the front, Belloni won surprisingly, the overall Giro di Lombardia in 1915 (a feat he repeated in 1918 and 1928) and the Milan–San Remo of 1917. In 1920 he obtained his greatest victory, the Giro d'Italia. In the 1920s Belloni constantly rivalled with his friend Costante Girardengo, being almost always defeated and gaining for this reason the nickname of \"Eterno secondo\" (\"Eternal second\"). He won a total of 43 races as a professional, including 12 stages at Giro d'Italia.


John Dalrymple FRS (1803 – 2 May 1852) was an English ophthalmologist who was born in Norwich, the son of William Dalrymple. In 1827 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently became an eye surgeon at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. He was elected assistant-surgeon in 1832 and full surgeon in 1843. In 1850 he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1851 a member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Dalrymple is remembered for his histological work done with Henry Bence Jones (1814-1873) in the discovery of the albumin that was to become known as Bence Jones protein. This protein is often found in the blood and urine of patients with multiple myeloma. He published his findings in a treatise called On the microscopic character of mollities ossium. Dalrymple also composed two important books on ophthalmology called \"The anatomy of the human eye\" (1834) and \"Pathology of the human eye\" (1852). The eponymous Dalrymple's sign is named after him, which is an abnormal wideness of the palpebral fissures in exophthalmic goiter.


William Smyth (January 3, 1824 – September 30, 1870) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and judge from Iowa. Born in Eden, Ireland, Smyth attended rural schools as a child, completed preparatory studies and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1838, settling in Pennsylvania. He moved to Iowa in 1844, attended the University of Iowa, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847, commencing practice in Marion, Iowa. Smyth served as prosecuting attorney of Linn County, Iowa from 1848 to 1853 and was appointed judge of the district court for the fourth judicial district of Iowa in 1853, serving until 1857. He resumed practicing law and in 1858 served as chairman of the commission to codify and revise the Iowa State laws. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 31st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment for two years. Smyth was elected a Republican to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district the United States House of Representatives in 1868, serving from March 1869 until his death in Marion, Iowa on September 30, 1870 while running for reelection. He was interred in Oak Shade Cemetery in Marion.


Lynn Crawford (born 1964) is a Canadian chef, trained at George Brown College in Toronto. She is known for her appearances on the hit Food Network show Restaurant Makeover, which is seen in over 16 countries worldwide. She was formerly the executive chef at the Four Seasons in Toronto and the former executive chef of the Four Seasons in New York. She appeared on the Food Network's Iron Chef America (the third chef from Canada to do so), in a battle with Iron Chef Bobby Flay. The episode first aired on March 7, 2007 with peanut as the theme ingredient. Crawford lost the battle to Chef Flay. In 2010, Crawford debuted a Food Network Canada series entitled Pitchin' In, in which she goes out to take on the challenge of getting the freshest and best ingredients. In the same year she launched Ruby Watchco, a table d'hôte restaurant, in Toronto's Riverside neighbourhood. She was also nominated for a Gemini Award in the Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series category for the Pitchin' In shrimp episode. In 2013, Crawford was a contestant on Top Chef Masters, along with Lora Kirk, her sous-chef from Ruby Watchco.


Otto Stark (1859–1926) was an American Impressionist painter who was considered to be a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana artists. Stark's work most clearly showed the influence of Impressionism, and he often featured children in his work. He began his career as a commercial woodcarver's apprentice in Indianapolis until an ankle injury disabled him. In 1875, he went to Cincinnati where he worked as a lithographer and attended the Cincinnati Art Academy. He studied with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League of New York. In 1885, he entered Académie Julian in Paris. He studied in Paris until 1888, and he exhibited paintings in the Paris Salons of 1886 and 1887. He also married while living in France. Stark and his family returned to the United States in 1888, living first in New York and later in Philadelphia. His wife died in 1891, leaving him with four children. He worked again as a lithographer in Cincinnati until he returned to painting in 1894 when he opened a studio in Indianapolis. He taught art at Manual High School in Indianapolis and at the Herron School of Art from 1905-1919. Stark remained an active artist until his death in 1926. He exhibited paintings at shows in Chicago (1894), Omaha (1898), St. Louis (1904), Buenos Aires (1910), and San Francisco (1915) as well as in local and regional exhibits.