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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Greg Dalton
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Greg was a journalist for 12 years covering news in Beijing, Vancouver, New York and San Francisco for the Associated Press, South China Morning Post, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and Industry Standard magazine. He went on to establish Climate One at The Commonwealth Club in 2007 after traveling to the Russian Arctic on a global warming symposium with climate scientists and journalists. Today, he hosts Climate One, a weekly radio show broadcast on public stations in California and across the country in addition to a podcast that is heard around the world. Greg also hosts a monthly TV show on KRCB TV 22 on Comcast and DirecTV.
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Masud Pathik
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Dr. Masud Pathik is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, poet, and scholar based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was awarded the prestigious Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2023 for his outstanding contributions to arts and letters. As a visionary filmmaker, he has received multiple National Film Awards from the Government of Bangladesh for his critically acclaimed features "Nekabborer Mohaproyan" (2014) and "Maya: The Lost Mother" (2019).
Pathik is the chief proponent of "Poetic Cinema" and "Raw Realism" in contemporary South Asian film, focusing deeply on the primal, spiritual, and existential connections between humanity and the natural environment. He holds a Ph.D. in Cinematic Music from Assam University, India, and an M.Phil. and Master's from the University of Dhaka. He serves as the Chief Executive of the production house Bratya Creation and is the President of the World Ecology Film Forum (Bangladesh). As a dedicated literary figure, he has published 24 volumes of poetry and proudly refers to himself as a "Servant of Poetry".
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Ola Ghanem
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Ola Ghanem was born in Cairo. Her father worked as an architect while her mother was an interior designer. Ola graduated from the Photography division at the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1994 but elected not to continue her studies at the Institute of Theatrical Arts. She came to the public’s attention through her involvement in Mohamed Fouad’s song “Hansaak” (“I will Forget You”). Ola has also appeared on TV commercials. The television productions in which Ola has assumed roles include “Al Qalb Yakhtea Ahyanan” (“The Heart is Sometimes Wrong”), “Zizinia”, “Ahlam Wardieh” (“Rosy Dreams”), “Jissr al Khatar” (“A Bridge to Danger”), “E’qal ya Majnoun” (“Wise Up”). Ola realized fame after taking part in an exceptional television production that was titled “Amakin fee Al Qalb” (“Places in the Heart”). Aside from her television appearances Ola has also acted in a play titled “Al Tayyib wa Al Shereer” (“Good and Evil”). She recently starred in "El Brinseesa" (The Princess).
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Eric Smith
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Dr. Eric Smith is the Associate Director for Research in the Science Mission Directorate’s Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. He is also the Program Scientist for the JWST.
Previously, Dr. Smith served as the JWST Program Director. Prior to becoming the Program Director in 2010, he was both the JWST and Hubble Program Scientist. In that role he was the senior NASA scientist responsible for the Webb science content and was also responsible for monitoring and managing the science program for both the JWST and Hubble, ensuring their missions remain viable and true to NASA strategic objectives. As Program Scientist for JWST Smith was responsible for the definition and safeguarding of the “Level 1” science requirements for JWST. These delineate the essential capabilities the observatory must possess such as primary mirror size, instrument complement, and mission lifetime.
He works with the JWST Project during the observatory’s development to keep NASA Headquarters management and external partners, both international and intergovernmental, apprised of how the developing hardware measures up against costs, schedules, and science requirements.
Before coming to NASA Headquarters he worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center on the science team for the Space Shuttle borne Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, and on the data archiving and distribution system for Hubble. He was also the JWST Deputy Project Scientist from 1996-2001.
Eric holds a B.A. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Virginia and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Maryland, College Park
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Lee Purcell
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Lee Purcell (born Lee Jeune Williams; June 15, 1947) is an American actress and writer-producer who has starred in films including Mr. Majestyk, Big Wednesday, Stir Crazy, and Valley Girl. She has also appeared in numerous television and stage productions.
She later appeared in such popular television series as Bonanza, Barnaby Jones and The Love Boat. After that, she took assignments only as the notion struck her favorably, such as the Charles Bronson action film Mr. Majestyk.
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Như Quỳnh
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Nguyễn Như Quỳnh (born in 1954, known as Như Quỳnh) is a Vietnamese actress and People's Artist (NSND). She is also known as an amateur poet. She graduated in 1971 from the Vietnam Theatre School, today the University of Theatre and Film, Hanoi (SKDA). Two years later, she acted as one of the two female leads in her first film, Bài ca ra trận ("The Song of Battle", d. Trần Đắc, 1973). Then with her role as Nết in Đến hẹn lại lên ("We'll Be Seeing Us Again", d. Trần Vũ, 1974), Như Quỳnh won the Best Actress Award at the 3rd Vietnam Film Festival in 1975. Her roles in a series of French co-productions, Indochine (1992), Cyclo (1995) and Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000) introduced her to a foreign audience.
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Osama bin Laden
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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, with a US$25 million bounty by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After being placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list, bin Laden remained in hiding during three U.S. presidential administrations. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs and CIA operatives in a covert operation ordered by U.S. President Barack Obama. Shortly after his death, bin Laden's body was buried at sea. Al-Qaeda acknowledged his death on May 6, 2011, vowing to retaliate.
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Antoine Pinay
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Antoine Pinay (30 December 1891 – 13 December 1994) was a French conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1952 to 1953.
Antoine Pinay was born on 30 December 1891 in Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. He was a child of Claude Pinay (5 July 1852 – 4 March 1919), and his wife, Marie Antoinette Besson (10 October 1861 – 23 November 1936).
On 25 April 1917, Pinay married Marguerite Fouletier (3 June 1895 – 3 December 1970) and had two daughters and one son, Geneviève (1918–2017), Odette (1920–2015), and Pierre (1922–1964).
As a young man, Pinay fought in World War I and injured his arm so that it was paralyzed for the rest of his life.
After the war, he managed a small business and in 1929 he was elected mayor of Saint-Chamond, Loire.
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1936, running as an independent candidate opposed to the Popular Front. In 1938 he was elected to the Senate, where he joined the Independent Radicals. On 10 July 1940 he voted to give the Cabinet presided over by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. In 1941, Antoine Pinay was appointed to the Conseil National of the Vichy regime. He was also awarded the Order of the Francisque. During the occupation, Antoine Pinay remained mayor of Saint-Chamond, although he had been urged by General Georges to move to Algiers, in order to better protect the residents of this city. Pinay resigned from the Conseil National within a few months and refused any official position with the Vichy regime, such as the préfecture de l'Hérault offered by Laval. He also gave several hundreds of identity papers to help Jews and members of the Resistance flee from France to Algiers or Switzerland. An official commission in 1946 recognized his long lasting opposition to the Nazis and the help he gave to the Resistance and released him without charge.
In 1944, he was first placed on house arrest, and stripped of his right to be candidate to an election on 5 September 1945. After the intervention of René Cassin, the vice-president of the Conseil d'État, who pointed to his fierce opposition to the German occupation, his citizen rights were restored on 5 October 1945. On 2 June 1946, he could successfully run for election to the Assemblée Constituante as a moderate candidate.
He helped create a conservative party, the National Center of Independents and Peasants (CNIP). He acquired the reputation as one of France's more spirited politicians and in 1952 became prime minister by virtue of being the most popular elected CNIP official. His ministry was seen as the return of the "classical right", discredited since the Liberation. He stabilized the finances of the French nation and the French currency.
In 1955, he was one of the participants of the Messina Conference, which would lead to the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
During the May 1958 crisis precipitated by the Algerian war, he supported Charles de Gaulle's return to power and approved of the Fifth Republic's constitution. He served as finance minister until 1960. In 1973, he was made médiateur de la République (ombudsman) by President Georges Pompidou. ...
Source: Article "Antoine Pinay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Kevon Stover
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Kevon Stover is an American based executive producer and actor. He is mixed with European, a little Native American Indian and a touch of Latin descent.
Kevon Stover is known for his role as Zane in the sci-fi/action thriller Beta Test (2016). He also was in Last Vegas (2013), Time Warrior ( 2012), Sanctioned to Die (2011) and Entourage.
In addition, Kevon has always been very active in many investments in the U.S. and abroad and has also been moving behind the camera as an executive producer as well of performing other positions of productions behind the scenes. He has also has owned and managed real estate and investment properties for many years.
Kevon also has many years of experience as a touring (and studio) singer, drummer and guitarist. He started off as a drummer and studied many genres and styles, touring and recording, predominantly in rock acts that were very high energy. Kevon then moved out front playing guitar and fronting as a lead singer with his brother Brian Stover. Unfortunately, with changing music styles and legal entanglements, it was not to be.
Kevon has also been a promoter of live shows and also a personal VIP book tours for well known celebrity's book tours to TV and Radio through Simon and Schuster.
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