From 'Some Like It Hot' to 'The Defiant Ones,' Tony Curtis was the reigning Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s. He is also known as actress Jamie Lee Curtis's dad.
Satish Jacob began his journalistic career with The Statesman, worked in Ethiopia for eight years, and joined the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as Mark Tully’s assistant in 1978. He has covered the Biafra War, the Middle East War and, with Tully, Mrs Gandhi’s assassination and the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster.
Biography of Pericles Born around 495 B.C., Pericles, also known as Athens’ “first citizen”, was a democratic Athenian legislator who strengthened the foundations of Athenian democracy. His greatest achievement, the one which allows his name to carry on, came when he dismantled the Areopagus, the old noble council of few elite Athenians.
Errol Musk is a noted South African former electrical and mechanical engineer consultant and property developer. He is the father of billionaire Elon Musk. Errol was involved in the emerald business at some point in the 1980s. He is a former member of the South African Progressive Federal Party.
Debbie Reynolds. Actress: Singin' in the Rain. Debbie Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, the second child of Maxine N. (Harmon) and Raymond Francis Reynolds, a carpenter for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Her film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton. Reynolds wasn't a dancer until she was selected to be Gene Kelly's.
Born Carol Ann Warner, June 2, 1935, in Oak Park, IL; died of breast cancer, J, in Victoria, BC, Canada. Author. Canadian–American novelist Carol Shields wrote several acclaimed works over the course of a career that cancer prematurely ended in 2003.
Winner of a Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2008, and a Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent in 2011, the tenor Ben Johnson represented England in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2013, winning the Audience Prize. A former English National Opera Harewood Artist, he is currently Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music, and.
Catherine Elizabeth Belton MBE (born 1973) is a British journalist and writer. From 2007 to 2013, she was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times. In Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West, published in 2020, Belton explored the rise of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He was born into a family of Zionist immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father, Jehuda-Arie Klausner (1910-1970), studied history and literature in Vilna and later worked as a librarian and writer.
After that, in the year 2015, she created her site named tyra.com, which was an internet business page. Besides that, she has also appeared on several series like Gossip Girl, Glee, Shake It Up, and many more. Then from 2017 to 2018, she was cast for hosting the famous show named American’s Got Talent.
The following is an excerpt from Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." Harte presents gambler John Oakhurst's observations. As Mr. John Oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the twenty-third of November, 1850, he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night.
Stanley Wilder His previous academic roles have been at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, the University of Rochester and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Wilder earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin, a master's degree in library science from Columbia University and an MBA from the University.
Antonio Tony Montana is the main character And The Main Protagonist from the 1983 film Scarface. He is portrayed by Al Pacino in the movie, and is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours. Tony Montana has become a cultural icon and is one of the most famous movie characters of all time, embodying the rise from the bottom to the top. He is also based on.
Sybil Ludington was an American Revolutionary War heroine, remembered for her valiant role in defense against British attack. Ludington was the daughter of Henry Ludington, a New York militia officer and later an aide to Gen. George Washington. According to accounts generally attributed to the.
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Gloria Carter Biography and Wiki. Gloria Carter is an American philanthropist and internet personality famously known as the mother of renowned rapper, record producer, and business mogul, Jay Z. She is the co-creator of the charity organization known as the Shawn Carter Foundation formed in 2003.
Karen M. McManus is a #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of young adult thrillers. Her work includes the One of Us Is Lying series, which was turned into a television show, as well as the standalone novels Two Can Keep a Secret, The Cousins, You’ll Be the Death of Me, Nothing More to Tell, and Such Charming Liars.
Alex Cooper, host of the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast on Spotify, is known for her interviews with some of Hollywood's biggest celebrities. Here's everything to know about Cooper.
Vittoria Colonna, certainly the most renowned and successful woman writer of her age in Italy, was widely admired by her peers for her impeccable Petrarchan verses and her public image of unimpeachable chastity and piety.
By Stone Palmer; Original: Decem Who is Barbara Stanwyck? Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Stevens on J, in Brooklyn, New York, was a prominent American film and television actress renowned for portraying strong-willed women across more than 80 films throughout her illustrious career.
Stephen King is a famous American author known for his horror and suspense books. This biography of Stephen King provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
Joyce Carol Oates is an acclaimed, award-winning American novelist, short story writer and poet. This biography offers detailed information about her childhood, life, works, career, achievements and timeline.
BIO. Boori Monty Pryor is a multi-award-winning children’s author, didjeridoo player, storyteller, dancer and renowned public speaker. Boori was born in Townsville, North Queensland. His father was from the Birrigubba people of the Bowen region and his mother is from Yarrabah (near Cairns), a descendant of the Kungganji.
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who co-invented the technology for spread spectrum. A very famous actress of her time, she is credited to be one of the most beautiful women to have ever graced the silver screen.
David Mitchell. Writer: That Mitchell and b Look. David Mitchell was born on 14th July 1974 in Salisbury, England. His parents, Ian and Kathy Mitchell, worked as hotel managers in Salisbury. David also has a brother. In 1977 the family moved to Oxford, where his parents taught a course in hotel management at Oxford Brookes University.
Canadian artist Jonathon Earl Bowser has established a presence in the international art marketplace. After graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1984, he went directly into a brief career in commercial art.
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Ned Segal’s résumé includes five years as chief financial officer of Twitter — he got the ax in 2022, when Elon Musk bought the bird site and renamed it X — and nearly 17 years at Goldman Sachs, where he held the titles of managing director and head of global software investment banking.
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Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963, Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American novelist especially noted for her debut novel, The Secret History (1992), and her third book, The Goldfinch (2013), winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Background and education. Tartt grew up in the small town of Grenada, Mississippi. She was a bookish.
Mary Seacole lived more than 150 years ago and had an adventurous life travelling across many lands to run businesses and help people in need. Mary was born in Kingston, Jamaica.
Paul VI began the practice of Apostolic Journeys beginning with the Holy Land, where his historic meeting with Athenagoras took place. His first encyclical, Ecclesiam Suam (1964), gave rise to the method of “the dialogue of salvation”.
Matthew Alexander Henson was an African American Arctic explorer. He worked with Robert Peary for almost 23 years exploring the Arctic. Henson became famous in black history for being part of an expedition that reached the North Pole between 1908-1909 and he was the first person in the group to reach the Pole.
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād (Arabic: طارق بن زياد), also known simply as Tarik in English, was a Berber commander who served the Umayyad Caliphate and initiated the Muslim Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania (present-day Spain and Portugal) in 711–718 AD. He led a large army and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from the North African coast, consolidating his troops at what is today.
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Kelly McGillis is an American actress who starred in Top Gun, Witness, The Accused and other films. She has English, Welsh, Scots-Irish and German ancestry and has two daughters.
He is buried in First Church Cemetery in East Haddam with his wife Marget (1730-1809), son Solomon (1774-1843), and grandchildren Eliza Ann Smith Roy (1826-1902), Rena Smith (1794-1808), and Jack Smith (1801-1840), Venture's gravestone was carved by John Isham Jr. of East Haddam while Silas Brainerd, also of East Haddam, carved Marget's gravestone.
Sanjay Dutt, son of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, was first featured in Rocky (1981), the movie was a box office hit. He emerged as a sensitive actor, alongside being the top prominent action hero of 80s & 90s Bollywood, whilst also finding noteworthy praise in the comedic genre.
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Tom Clavin. TOM CLAVIN is a bestselling author of 18 nonfiction books on American and military history, sports, and entertainment. He previously worked as a newspaper editor and reporter, including for the New York Times for 15 years, and as a writer for such magazines as Smithsonian and Men's Journal.
• Connie Stevens is an American singer, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, editor and cinematographer. • She is best known for her role in the “Hawaiian Eye” TV series in the early ‘60s, as well as for her singing career.
Ronnie Spector was a well-known American rock-and-roll singer of the early 1960s and 1970s, who gained the reputation of being “the original bad girl of rock ‘n’ roll.” Ronnie joined her sister and cousin to form the popular girl band ‘Darling Sisters,’ which later changed its name to ‘The Ronettes.’.
Albert Camus was a French Algerian writer best known for his absurdist works, including 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague.' He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. By Biography.com Editors.