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Carlos Calvo (footballer, born 1985)
Carlos Calvo Sobrado (born 18 September 1985) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays mainly as a winger but also as a forward.
Club career
Calvo was born in Madrid. After playing well into his 20s with modest sides – Elche CF Ilicitano, Real Valladolid B, Villajoyosa CF an... | {
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Ronald A. Sarasin
Ronald Arthur Sarasin (born December 31, 1934) is a former American politician from Connecticut. He served two terms in the Connecticut House of Representatives and three terms as a U.S. Representative.
Early life and career
Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Sarasin attended Center Elementary Scho... | {
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Nigel Waterson
Nigel Christopher Waterson (born 12 October 1950) is a British former politician. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Eastbourne from 1992 until 2010. Waterson was a junior minister in the government of John Major. He has been the chairman of the Equity Release Council since 2012.
Early li... | {
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Frank Howard (columnist)
Frank Howard (3 January 1931 – 26 February 2008) was a Canadian journalist and columnist who wrote for the Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, the Montreal Star, and the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.
He was born on January 3, 1931 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to anglophone ... | {
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Congregation Beth Israel (Bangor, Maine)
Congregation Beth Israel () is a Conservative synagogue, located for most of its history at 144 York Street in Bangor, Maine. The oldest continuously operating synagogue in Maine, it was organized in 1888 after an influx to Maine of Lithuanian and Polish Jews. There was a pre... | {
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Columbus O'Donnell Iselin
Columbus O'Donnell Iselin (1904–1971) was an American oceanographer. He was the director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1940 to 1950, and from 1956 to 1960. He was Professor of Physical Oceanography at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Wyatt Cenac
Wyatt Cenac (; born April 19, 1976) is an American comedian, actor, producer, and writer. He was a correspondent and writer for The Daily Show from 2008 to 2012. He starred in the TBS series People of Earth and in Barry Jenkins's first feature Medicine for Melancholy. He also hosted and produced the HBO se... | {
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Ellen Day Hale
Ellen Day Hale (February 11, 1855February 11, 1940) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris, London and Boston. She exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts. Hale wrote the book History of Art: ... | {
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Neil Folberg
Neil Folberg (born April 7, 1950) is an American-Israeli photographer and gallerist.
Early life and education
Folberg was born in San Francisco in 1950. His father was Joseph Folberg, a San Francisco gallerist.
At the age of 16, Neil was invited to study with Ansel Adams at a photographic workshop whi... | {
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January 1961 nor'easter
The January 1961 nor'easter was a significant winter storm that impacted the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States. It was the second of three major snowstorms during the 1960–1961 winter. The storm ranked as Category 3, or "major", on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale.
S... | {
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Eric McClintock
Sir Eric Paul McClintock (13 September 1918 – 27 March 2018) was an Australian public servant and businessman. He was notable for serving as chairman of Woolworths Limited from 1980 to 1987.
Early life
McClintock was born on 13 September 1918 in Gulgong, New South Wales, to Robert Emanuel McClintock (... | {
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Nus Ghani
Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani (born 1 September 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wealden in East Sussex since 2015. She previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport and Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury.
Ea... | {
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RCA Victrola
RCA Victrola was a budget record label introduced by RCA Victor in the early 1960s to reissue classical recordings originally released on the RCA Victor "Red Seal" label. The name 'Victrola' was the trademark for early console phonographs with enclosed horns first marketed by the Victor Talking Machine C... | {
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Aleksey Gorchakov
Prince Aleksey Ivanovich Gorchakov ( – ) was a Russian general and statesman from the Gorchakov family.
Biography
Aleksey Gorchakov was a son of Prince Ivan Gorchakov and a sister of the noted Russian generalissimo Alexander Suvorov. Born in Moscow, he enlisted in the Lifa Guard Preobrazhensk Regime... | {
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Daniel Friedmann
Daniel Friedmann (, born 17 April 1936) is a former professor at and dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He served as the Minister of Justice of Israel from 2007 to 2009, having been appointed by then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He was sworn in on February 7, 2007, succeeding Tzipi Livni. ... | {
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George Pitts (journalist)
George Eddie Pitts (né George Edward Pitts; 22 September 1925 Aliquippa, Pennsylvania – 14 May 1987 Washington, D.C.) was an influential newspaper entertainment journalist and editor – notably, from 1953 to 1964, for the Pittsburgh Courier, but later, for the Chicago Courier (managing editor)... | {
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Staples High School
Staples High School is a public high school located in the town of Westport, Connecticut, USA.
Staples High School is named after Horace Staples, who founded the school on April 26, 1884.
Westport is one of eight school districts in District Reference Group A (along with Darien, Easton, New Canaa... | {
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Sergei Rudenko
Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko (; January 16, 1885, Kharkov - July 16, 1969, Leningrad) was a prominent Russian/Soviet anthropologist and archaeologist who discovered and excavated the most celebrated of Scythian burials, Pazyryk in Siberia.
Rudenko was a follower of Paul Broca's "French School" of anthropol... | {
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Neil Cossons
Sir Neil Cossons FMA (born 15 January 1939) is a British historian and museum administrator.
Biography
Cossons was born in Beeston and studied at the University of Liverpool.
He was the first director of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust from 1971 and then at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich fro... | {
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Hiester Clymer
Hiester Clymer (November 3, 1827 – June 12, 1884) was an American political leader from the state of Pennsylvania. Clymer was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty and the Democratic Party. He was the nephew of William Muhlenberg Hiester and the cousin of Isaac Ellmaker Hiester. Although Cly... | {
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Bird Millman
Bird Millman O’Day (born Jennadean Engleman; October 20, 1890 – August 5, 1940) was one of the most celebrated high-wire performers of all time. During the “Golden Age of the American Circus,” she was a premiere attraction with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Mud shows and vaudeville
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Robert Salvador
Robert Salvador is a retired Philippine Army officer and a recipient the Philippines' highest military award for courage, the Medal of Valor.
Salvador, then a Private First Class, was one of the soldiers defending Camp Aguinaldo during the 1989 Philippine coup attempt. When armored personnel carriers ... | {
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Assad Kotaite
Assad Kotaite () (November 6, 1924 - February 27, 2014), was a former Secretary-General and Council President of the International Civil Aviation Organization from 1976 to 2006.
Early life
He was born in Hasbaya, Lebanon. In 1948, he graduated from the Saint Joseph University (Université Saint-Joseph) i... | {
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Michaela Abam
Michaela-Batya Bisi Abam (born 12 June 1997) is an American-born Cameroonian footballer who plays as a forward for Real Betis in the Spanish Primera División and the Cameroon national team. She previously played for Sky Blue FC in the National Women's Soccer League and West Virginia University.
College ... | {
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David P. Penhallow
David Pearce Penhallow (25 May 1854 – 20 October 1910) was a Canadian-American botanist, paleobotanist and educator.
Born in Kittery Point, Maine, Penhallow graduated from Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1873 (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst). When his former professor, William S.... | {
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Worcester County Horticultural Society
The Worcester County Horticultural Society is a non-profit American horticultural society based out of Boylston, Massachusetts, whose stated mission as of 2014 is to "inspire the use and appreciation of horticulture to improve lives, enrich communities and strengthen commitment t... | {
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Ammann & Whitney
Ammann & Whitney was a full-service architecture and engineering firm that provided design and construction services for public and private sector projects. The firm provided new construction, renovations, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, interior design and sustainable design.
In 2016, Ammann ... | {
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Carl Zimmermann (news anchor)
Carl G. Zimmermann (March 26, 1918 – April 11, 2014) was an American television journalist, news anchor and World War II war correspondent. Zimmermann had the longest on-air broadcasting career in the history of the Milwaukee media market, having spent more than 50 years on television and... | {
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Hinduism in England
Hinduism in England is the third largest religion in the country, with over 806,000 followers as of the 2011 Census. This represents over 1.5% of the English population, up from 1.1% the previous decade. Hindus are predominantly in the cities of London and Leicester, where they make up greater prop... | {
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Deborah Marrow
Deborah Marrow (October 18, 1948 – October 1, 2019) was an American arts administrator, longtime director of the Getty Foundation at the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Early life
Marrow was born in New York City and raised in Scarsdale, New York, the daughter of Seymour A. Marrow and Adele Marrow. Her father wa... | {
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Anastasia Klose
Anastasia Klose (born 1978) is an Australian contemporary artist. Her work has received much attention in the art world due to the personal nature of her subject matter, often putting herself in humiliating situations. She is a graduate of both the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and the University... | {
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Rebecca Harding Davis
Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (June 24, 1831 – September 29, 1910; born Rebecca Blaine Harding) was an American author and journalist. She was a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important liter... | {
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1760 in architecture
The year 1760 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
The Laleli Mosque ("Tulip Mosque") in Istanbul is begun (completed in 1763).
St. George's Cathedral, Lviv, Ukraine, designed by Bernard Meretin, is completed.
Servite Church, Vienna, designed b... | {
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Combat Jack
Reginald Joseph "Reggie" Ossé (July 8, 1964 – December 20, 2017), known professionally as Combat Jack, was an Haitian-American hip hop music attorney, executive, journalist, editor and podcaster. He was the former managing editor of The Source. He was the host of the podcast The Combat Jack Show and foundi... | {
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Emerson Harrington
Emerson Columbus Harrington (March 26, 1864December 15, 1945) was the 48th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1916 to 1920. He also served as Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1912 to 1916.
Early life, career, and family
Emerson Harrington was born to John E. Harrington and Eli... | {
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Purdy
Purdy may refer to:
People
Surname
Al Purdy (1918-2000), Canadian poet
Amy Purdy (born 1979), American actress, model and Paralympic snowboarder
Ashley Purdy, Black Veil Brides bassist
Bill Purdy (born 1946), United States Olympic rower
Cecil Purdy (1906-1979), Australian chess player, writer and inaugura... | {
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Andrés Framini
Andrés Framini (August 2, 1914 –May 9, 2001) was an Argentine labor leader and politician.
Life and times
Early career
Andrés Framini was born in the working-class La Plata suburb of Berisso, in 1914. He entered the labor force as a peon in one of Buenos Aires' many textile manufacturers, eventually w... | {
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List of University of Essex people
The following is a list of notable University of Essex people (in chronological or alphabetical order).
Chancellors
Rab Butler (1966–1982)
Sir Patrick Nairne (1982–1997)
Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan (1997–2002)
Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury (2003–2014)
Shami Chakrab... | {
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Linden Ashby
Clarence Linden Garnett Ashby III (born May 23, 1960) is an American actor and martial artist . He is known for his roles as Johnny Cage in the film adaptation of Mortal Kombat, and as Dr. Brett Cooper on Melrose Place. He is well known for his role as Sheriff Noah Stilinski in the MTV series Teen Wolf (2... | {
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Hernán Rengifo
Hernán Rengifo Trigoso (born 18 April 1983) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a striker in the Peruvian Primera División for Real Garcilaso.
Career
In a successful UEFA Cup campaign in 2008-09 for Lech Poznań, Rengifo finished with six goals in the competition, including scoring in both legs of La... | {
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John Cusack
John Paul Cusack (; born June 28, 1966) is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He began acting in films during the 1980s and has since starred in a number of movies, including Better Off Dead (1985), Say Anything... (1989), Bullets over Broadway (1994), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Mal... | {
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