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Mara Estela Martnez Cartas de Pern , better known as Isabel Martnez de Pern or Isabel Pern, is a former President of Argentina. She was the third wife of the late President Juan Pern. During her husbands third term as president from 1973 to 1974, Isabel served as both vice president and First Lady. Following her husbands death in office in 1974, Isabel served as president of Argentina from 1 July 1974 to 24 March 1976. She holds the distinction of being the first female president of any country....
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Arthur Chaskalson SCOB, was President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005. Chaskalson was a member of the defence team in the Rivonia Trial of 1963.....
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Ivan Rebroff was a German singer, allegedly of Russian ancestry, with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to bass registers.....
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John William Jack King was a Chief of Public Information and Public Affairs Officer for NASA. He is best known for his work as Kennedy Space Center Chief of Public Information during projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. As part of this role, he provided public announcements and commentary for several of the mission launches. He is best known for his announcement of the Apollo 11 launch, which earned him the nickname Voice of Apollo. The iconic commentary from that launch has been reused in song....
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Charles Grald Genta was a Swiss wristwatch designer, noted for his eponymous line of time pieces as well as his design work with other firms, including IWC, Universal Genve, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet, among others. Christies auction house of New York called Gentas work the Faberg of watches, while The Wall Street Journal has called them the worlds most complicated and pricey watches.....
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Cingireddy Narayana Reddy is an Indian poet and writer. He won the Jnanpith Award in 1988 and is considered to be an authority on Telugu literature. He is known as Cinare.....
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Galina Ivanovna Zybina is a retired Russian athlete and coach. She competed in the shot put at the 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first, second, seventh and third place, respectively in 1952 she also finished fourth in the javelin throw. Between 1952 and 1956 she set eight consecutive world records and 14 national records in the shot put. In 1953, she became the first woman to throw over 16 meters .....
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Carroll Baker is a former American film, stage, and television actress. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Bakers range of roles from naive ingenues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a serious dramatic actress and a blonde bombshell. While performing on Broadway in 1954, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in Tennessee Williamss Baby Doll . Her role in the film as a sexuallyrepressed Southern bride lent Baker overnight notoriety and earned her BAFTA and Ac....
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Faten Hamama May 27, 1931 January 17, 2015 was an Egyptian film and television actress and producer.....
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Hans Tietmeyer is a German economist and regarded as one of the foremost experts on international financial matters. He was president of Deutsche Bundesbank from 1993 until 1999 and remains one of the most important figures in finance of the European Union.....
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Gavin MacLeod is an American film, television and character actor, ships ambassador, Christian activist and author, whose career spans six decades of television. He has also appeared as a guest on several talk, variety and religious shows.....
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Edwin Ed Meese, III is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration , the Reagan Presidential Transition Team and the Reagan White House , eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States , a position from which he resigned while under investigation from a special prosecutor.....
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Georges Yatrids is a French artist. His work is held in various North American private collections, and has been featured in retrospectives.....
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David Herbert McNerney was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in the Vietnam War. A native of Massachusetts who moved to Houston, Texas, as a child, McNerney served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War before enlisting in the Army. He was recognized with the Medal of Honor when, as a first sergeant in Vietnam on March 22, 1967, his company came under attack by a numerically superior North Vietnamese f....
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David Janssen was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive . Janssen also had the title roles in three other series Richard Diamond, Private Detective Harry O and OHara, U.S. Treasury.....
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Laszar was born Cristine Christel Lazarus in Ortelsburg, East Prussia, Weimar Germany . She was educated at the WestBerlin Max Reinhardtstageschool and began her career at the RenaissanceTheater , the Die Stachelschweine and the Munich Schaubude. She also appeared at the Volksbhne Berlin . In the 1950s she married Rudolf Schndler . In 1958 she moved to East Germany and married KarlEduard von Schnitzler . Laszar appeared in several movies of the DEFA.....
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George Glenn Jones was an American musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his most well known song He Stopped Loving Her Today, as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last 20 years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill C. Malone writes, For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, an....
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George Maciunas was a Lithuanianborn American artist. He was a founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. Other leading members brought together by this movement included AyO, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell.....
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Christopher John George was an American television and film actor who was perhaps best known for his starring role in the 196668 TV series The Rat Patrol. He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1967 as Best TV Star for his performance in the series. He was also the recipient of a New York Film Festival award as the Best Actor in a Television Commercial. George was married to actress Lynda Day George.....
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Dean Edwards Smith was an American head coach of mens college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith was called a coaching legend by the Basketball Hall of Fame. He is best known for his 36year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I mens basketball record at that time. Smith had the 9th highest winning percentage of any mens college basketball coach . During his....
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