This week in , Donald Tewes was born in Merrill. Donald graduated from Valparaiso University before receiving his law degree from UW-Madison. During World War 2, Donald served as a combat.
World famous Ukrainian female violinist supports orphans and children with disabilities! Anastasiya Petryshak was born in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk. At the age of eight, she started performing in public, winning several national and international competitions.
Dalal was born in Nazareth in to a music-loving family. Her talent has appeared at the age of 13 and she started singing Palestinian folk songs in different social and folklore parties. She became famous for singing classical Umm Kolthoum songs.
Compassion is a hallmark of authentic religion. The infusion of compassion into religious life was the culmination of a spiritual transformation in Axial Age (a year period in history between BC to BC).
He was the son and successor of Sinchi Ruq'a, though he had an elder brother Manqu was the father of Mayta Cá wife's name is variously given as Mama Cava, also known as Mama Qawa (Spanish Mama Qawa) or Mama Cora Ocllo.
Her stories often draw from her own experiences—as an Edwardian débutante, a novice in a religious order, a war worker, and an upper-middle-class wife and mother in a modernizing Georgian world. At her best (as in Diary of a Provincial Lady) she offers lively, amusing insights into the foibles of her own class and contemporary society at large.
Melania Trump (), the wife of Donald Trump, the 45th U.S. president, was the second-ever first lady born outside of America. A native of Slovenia, she was the first presidential spouse.
Anthony Buencamino, known professionally as Nonie Buencamino, is a Filipino character actor known for his television and theater work. He is strongly associated with Philippine New Wave Cinema, playing roles such as Mayor Bartolome in Jun Lana's Barber's Tales and Felipe Buencamino in Jerrold Tarog's Heneral Luna.
Somini Sengupta, a New York Times journalist born in Kolkata, talks about her book on India’s youth ‘bulge.’ The New York Times Upfront Magazine. In an adaptation for young adult readers, New York Times reporter Somini Sengupta, who covered India for four years, profiles an ambitious young woman striving for a better life. KCRW To the Point.
Renee Reijo Pera is a stem cell biologist and the President of the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, MT. She previously served as Vice President of Research and Economic Development, for more than 8 years at the California Polytechnic State University and at Montana State University.
The dates for Greek cosmologist Anaxagoras’ birth and death come from Diogenes Laertius, a Greek biographer of the third century, famous for his volume Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Anaxagoras was “said to have been 20 years old at the time of Xerxes’ crossing (the Persian king led an army into Greece in BCE) and to have lived to.
[Verse 1] / I lost my dad at three / Along with half my family tree / And I lost my virginity / Later than everybody and still wasn't ready / I lost my first hometown / And a box.
George Muller's wonderful biography opens with an attempted escape from the consequences of stealing. Yes, the sixteen-year-old George was dishonest, rebellious, a thief and a liar. He was caught by the Prussian police officers and faced discipline both from police and his strict father.
Isabel Allende is a Chilean American writer in the magic realist tradition who was one of the first successful women novelists from Latin America. Her books include The House of the Spirits, The Infinite Plan, Daughter of Fortune, In the Midst of Winter, and A Long Petal of the Sea.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an Inuk who advocates for the environmental, cultural and human rights of Inuit of the Arctic. Born in Kuujjuaq, Québec, she had a traditional Inuit upbringing until age 10, traveling only by dogteam.
Marissa Jeanne Vaziri was the year-old daughter of Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known by his ring name The Iron Sheik, who was an Iranian-American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and actor.