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Post by jusrme on May 9, 2020 20:10:08 GMT -5
Xavier Cugat ~ Musician -singer - actor - director - screenwriter - bandleader
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Post by chopin on May 9, 2020 20:58:27 GMT -5
Yao Defen
- of China, was the tallest living woman, as recognized by Guinness World Records. She stood at 234 centimetres tall, weighed 144 kilograms (317 lb), and had size 23 (US) feet. Her gigantism was due to a tumor in her pituitary gland
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Post by jusrme on May 11, 2020 21:46:58 GMT -5
Zachary Taylor ~ 12th President of the United States
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Post by jan4hs on May 12, 2020 6:55:21 GMT -5
Al (Alfredo) James Pacino
- American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts.
Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received his first Oscar nomination, and he would reprise the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). His portrayal of Michael Corleone is regarded as one of the greatest screen performances in film history.
Pacino received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and ...And Justice for All (1979), ultimately winning it for playing a blind military veteran in Scent of a Woman (1992).
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Post by Harry Potter on May 14, 2020 18:11:30 GMT -5
"Babe" George Herman Ruth Jr. (1895 - 1948)
- Retired in 1935 American professional baseball player (Outfielder / Pitcher) whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1914–1919 and 1935), but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees(1920–1934) . Ruth established many MLB batting (and some pitching) records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the last two still stand as of 2019. Career highlights and awards 2× All-Star (1933, 1934) 7× World Series champion (1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932) AL MVP (1923) AL batting champion (1924) 12× AL home run leader (1918–1921, 1923, 1924, 1926–1931) 6× AL RBI leader (1919–1921, 1923, 1926, 1928) AL ERA leader (1916) Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time.
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Post by jusrme on May 16, 2020 19:09:27 GMT -5
C - Charles Darwin ~ an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Post by raptor on May 24, 2020 22:07:18 GMT -5
Dwyane Wade - Retired NBA player who played 14 years (out of 16) for Miami Heat.
Wade is Miami's all-time leader in points, games, assists, steals, shots made, and shots taken.
Career highlights and awards 3× NBA champion (2006, 2012, 2013) NBA Finals MVP (2006) 13× NBA All-Star (2005–2016, 2019) NBA All-Star Game MVP (2010) 2× All-NBA First Team (2009, 2010) 3× All-NBA Second Team (2005, 2006, 2011) 3× All-NBA Third Team (2007, 2012, 2013) 3× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2005, 2009, 2010) NBA scoring champion (2009) NBA All-Rookie First Team (2004) No. 3 retired by Miami Heat
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Post by jusrme on May 27, 2020 9:40:16 GMT -5
Edgar Allan Poe ~ poet, short-story writer, critic
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Post by raptor on Jun 5, 2020 17:58:00 GMT -5
Franz Anton Beckenbauer
- German former professional footballer and manager. He is widely regarded to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Twice named European Footballer of the Year. He is one of three men, along with Brazil's Mário Zagallo and France's Didier Deschamps to have won the World Cup as a player and as a manager
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Post by elizab on Jun 7, 2020 17:39:13 GMT -5
Galileo Galilei
- Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. Finally, his discoveries with the telescope revolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system,
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Post by jusrme on Jun 13, 2020 18:36:19 GMT -5
Henry Kissinger ~ an American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
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Post by Harry Potter on Jun 14, 2020 10:25:27 GMT -5
Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump
- American businesswoman, serving since 2017 as Senior Advisor to the President, her father Donald Trump
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Post by chopin on Jun 16, 2020 7:53:58 GMT -5
Justin Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada (current)
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Post by jusrme on Jun 17, 2020 21:58:40 GMT -5
Kevin Harvick ~ American race car driver
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Post by chopin on Jun 18, 2020 8:28:07 GMT -5
Larry Joe Bird
- former professional basketball player (Boston Celtics) , coach and executive in the National Basketball Association . Nicknamed "The Hick from French Lick", Bird is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
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