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Yumika Hayashi
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Yumika Hayashi (林由美香 Hayashi Yumika, June 27, 1970 – June 28, 2005) was a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She earned the title of "Japan's Original Adult Video Queen" during a 16-year career in which she starred in nearly 200 AVs and appeared in over 180 films. Hayashi was also a prominent pink film actress; she was the subject of a 1997 documentary and the recipient of the Best Actress award at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony in 2004 as well as receiving the Special Career Award the following year. Her death on June 28, 2005, one day after her 35th birthday, ended one of the longest careers in the AV field and made front-page news in Tokyo. Following her death, Hayashi was awarded a second Special Career Award at the 2006 Pink Grand Prix ceremony and became the subject of several theatrical retrospectives and a 382-page biography. [Wikipedia]
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Schalet Jackson
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Schalet Renee' Cox-Jackson was born on June 16, 1973 in Davenport, Iowa but spent the majority of her adolescent life in Lima, Ohio. In May 2001, Schalet earned her Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio. Schalet landed her first acting role in Deacon's Choice (2015). Soon thereafter, she landed a supporting role in Lifestone Velocity (2016); supporting voice-over role for Keys for Kids Radio - Red Rock Mysteries, Grave Shadows - Book 5 (2015); a supporting role in The House on Aspen Street (2016); and lead roles in Aunt Jean (2016) and Knight's End (2017). Wanting to learn more, Schalet found herself working both in front of the camera and behind the scenes with the television sitcom pilot, The Family Tree (2016). Her role in life is to make the world a better place. Schalet is well on her way of doing just that by becoming highly successful powerhouse in the entertainment industry.
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Alonna Shaw
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Alonna is a writer and editor living in Northern California. She utilizes her background in theatre, film, television, and appreciation of nature in her work. Storytelling interests include adventures, travel, biography, and social science fiction. Her hobbies are painting, photography, hiking in nature, reading, and always learning something new. She loves horses, cats, and birds of prey (but not songbirds). Alonna is married. Her past careers were as a model, then an actress. Life is a journey, each career adding to the next.
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Beat Kammerlander
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Beat Kammerlander is one of the world's best sports climbers of his generation and has contributed significantly to the development of climbing, especially in alpine terrain. His first ascent of Unendliche Geschichte in 1991 in the Rätikon was the first alpine sport route in the upper tenth UIAA grade. In addition, his route Silbergeier (difficulty X+ (UIAA), 1994) was for years one of the three most difficult alpine tours in the world, the trilogy, until Alexander Huber was able to climb an even more difficult route with Bellavista on the north face of the Cima Ovest di Lavaredo in 2001.
In 1997 he set up the multi-pitch route WoGü in the Rätikon massif, which he named after Wolfgang Güllich †, and did the first ascent. Adam Ondra succeeded in the first red point ascent of this route in 2008.
He was also very successful as a sports climber, and with Speed(XI-/XI) and "Missing Link" (XI) he achieved two extremely difficult routes at Voralpsee in Switzerland. In 2009 he succeeded in repeating his route Prinzip Hoffnung from 1997 without using bolts or normal hooks, i.e. greenpoint. Beat Kammerlander rated the route X/X+, E9-E10.
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Giannis Dalianidis
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Giannis Dalianidis (Greek: Γιάννης Δαλιανίδης; 31 December 1923 – 16 October 2010) was a Greek film director.
His first film was Mousitsa, released in 1959, which was followed by a series of musicals. Between 1974 and 1981, he produced the television series Luna Park. In 2002, he was dubbed a "national film hero" at the International Thessaloniki Film Festival.
Giannis Dalianidis was born in Thessaloniki on 31 December 1923. He started his career as a dancer under the nickname Giannis Dal. From 1958, he worked in cinema, initially as a screenwriter and afterwards as a director. In 1959 he directed his first film, Mousitsa and sometime later Laos kai Kolonaki.
In 1961 he started to cooperate with the Finos Films the most successful Greek film production company. He directed such films as The Downhill, Liar Wanted, and Gorgones ke Manges, among others. Dalianidis mainly excelled in musical films. This genre, in Greece, is today closely related with Dalianidis. He directed over 70 films and 10 television series.
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Stanislav Shushkevich
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Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich (Belarusian: Станісла́ў Станісла́вавіч Шушке́віч, Łacinka: Stanisłaŭ Stanisłavavič Šuškievič; Russian: Станисла́в Станисла́вович Шушке́вич; born December 15, 1934 in Minsk) is a Belarusian politician and scientist. From August 25, 1991 to January 26, 1994, he was the first head of state of independent Belarus after it seceded from the Soviet Union, serving as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (also called chairman of Parliament or president). He supported social democratic reforms and played a key role in the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
As a scientist, he is a corresponding member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Doctor in Physics and Mathematics, recipient of various state awards, professor and the author and originator of textbooks and over 150 articles and 50 inventions.
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John Hensley
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John Carter Hensley II (born August 29, 1977) is an American actor.
John's parents divorced when he was 3 years old. He and his sister spent time with both parents growing up.
He was born in Hyden, Kentucky, United States. Before becoming an actor, Hensley worked on a horse ranch in Wyoming.
Though always drawn to storytelling, Hensley did not intend to act before he auditioned for a college play. Although he was not cast, he was hooked. Immersing himself in the school's theater community, he formed an improv group with a few other students. He eventually decided to move to New York, where he met his future manager.
His film appearances have included Peoples, Fifty Pills, Teeth, and Shutter.
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Eduard Shevardnadze
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Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე, Eduard Ambrosis dze Ševardnadze; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Georgian politician and diplomat. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (GPC), the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze was responsible for many key decisions in Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev Era including reunification of Germany. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was President of Georgia (or in equivalent posts) from 1992 to 2003. He was forced to retire in 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution. (wiki)
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Frank Shamrock
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Frank Shamrock (born Frank Alisio Juarez, III; December 8, 1972) is a retired mixed martial arts fighter. Shamrock was the first to hold the UFC Middleweight Championship (later renamed the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship) and retired as the four-time defending undefeated champion. Shamrock was widely credited as being the #1 ranked pound for pound fighter in the world during his reign as the UFC Middleweight Champion. Shamrock has also won numerous titles in other mixed martial arts organizations, including the interim King of Pancrase title, the WEC Light Heavyweight Championship, and the Strikeforce Middleweight Championship.
He has been named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 1990s by the Wrestling Observer, "Best Full Contact Fighter", by Black Belt magazine (1998), and three time "Fighter of the Year" by Full Contact Fighter Magazine. He is a 7th degree black belt in Submission Fighting as awarded by O-Sensei Philip S. Porter of the United States Martial Arts Association. He is the adopted brother of former UFC champion Ken Shamrock. He holds notable wins over Bas Rutten, Tito Ortiz, Jeremy Horn, Tsuyoshi Kohsaka, Kevin Jackson and Phil Baroni.
An author, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist, he is also a color commentator for Showtime Networks and a brand spokesman for Strikeforce, a mixed martial arts company acquired by Zuffa in 2011.
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Bruno Monsaingeon
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Bruno Monsaingeon (born 5 December 1943) is a French filmmaker, writer, and violinist. He has made a number of documentary films about famous twentieth-century musicians, including Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, Piotr Anderszewski, Yehudi Menuhin, Francesco Libetta, Grigory Sokolov and David Fray. His interviews with Richter and with Nadia Boulanger have also been published as books.
Source: Article "Bruno Monsaingeon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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