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Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling (April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006) was an American film and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's company holds the record as the most prolific television writer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits. Forbes ranked him the 11th top-earning dead celebrity in 2009.
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Abe Saffron
Abraham Gilbert (Abe) Saffron (6 October 1919 - 15 September 2006), was an Australian nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in Australian organised crime in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (, , Abu Musab from Zarqa); October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (, ) was a Jordanian militant Islamist who ran a paramilitary training camp in Afghanistan. He became known after going to Iraq and being responsible for a series of bombings, beheadings and attacks during the Iraq War.
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Adrien Douady
Adrien Douady (25 September 1935 – 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician.
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Adrienne Shelly
Adrienne Shelly (June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006), sometimes credited as Adrienne Shelley, was an American actress, director and screenwriter. Making her name in independent films such as 1989's The Unbelievable Truth and 1990's Trust, Shelly transitioned to a writing and directing career in subsequent years. She wrote, co-starred in, and directed the 2007 film Waitress, which won five awards, including the Jury Prize at the Sarasota Film Festival for narrative feature, and the Audience and Feature Film awards at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
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Akira Ifukube
(31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores, perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the Godzilla movies by Toho.
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Al Lewis (actor)
Al Lewis (April 30, 1923 – February 3, 2006) was an American character actor best known for his role as "Grandpa Munster" on the television series The Munsters and its subsequent film versions. Later in life, he was also a restaurant owner, political candidate, and radio broadcaster.
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Aladár Pege
Aladár Pege (8 October 1939 - 23 September 2006), was a jazz musician from Hungary. He was well known for his work and was dubbed "the Paganini of double bass".
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Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman, MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006) was a British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.
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Alberto Spencer
Alberto Pedro Spencer Herrera (December 6, 1937 – November 3, 2006) was an Ecuadorian football (soccer) player, regarded as the best of his country. He is probably best known for his still-standing record for scoring the most goals in the Copa Libertadores, the most important club tournament in South America. He was elected the 20th best South American footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS in 2004. He was known as "" (Spanish for magic head).
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Alex Toth
Alex Toth (June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006) was an American professional cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but is best known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Space Ghost, The Herculoids, and Birdman. Toth’s work has been resurrected in the late-night, adult-themed spinoffs on Cartoon Network: and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
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Alexander Litvinenko
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko () (4 December 1962 by father's account, another date in some obituaries – 23 November 2006) was an officer who served in the Soviet KGB and its Russian successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB).
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Alida Valli
Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in over 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
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Ana Carolina Reston
Ana Carolina Reston Macan (June 4, 1984 – November 15, 2006) was a Brazilian fashion model.
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Anderson Mazoka
Anderson K. Mazoka (22 March 1943 – 24 May 2006) was a Zambian politician and President of the United Party for National Development (UPND), a leading opposition party.
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Andre Waters
Andre Waters (March 10, 1962 – November 20, 2006) was an NFL defensive back who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals from 1984 to 1995. Waters was regarded as one of the NFL's hardest-hitting defenders, serving as an integral part of one of the league's top defenses. On November 20, 2006, Waters committed suicide in his Tampa, Florida home.
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Andreas Katsulas
Andrew "Andreas" Katsulas (May 18, 1946 – February 13, 2006) was an American actor perhaps best known for his roles as Ambassador G'Kar in the science fiction television series Babylon 5, as the one-armed villain Sykes in the film The Fugitive (1993), and as the Romulan Commander Tomalak on '. He also played Vissian Captain Drennik in the ' episode "Cogenitor".
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Anita O'Day
'''Anita O'Day''' (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer.
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Anna Politkovskaya
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Anna Russell
Anna Russell, née Anna Claudia Russell-Brown (27 December 1911 – 18 October 2006) was an English–Canadian singer and comedienne. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano. Among her best-known works are her concert performances and famous recordings of The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis) – a humorous 30-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen – and (on the same album) her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.
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Anthony Burger
Anthony John Burger (June 5, 1961–February 22, 2006) was an American musician and singer, most closely associated with Southern Gospel music.
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Ariel Sharon
( , also known by his diminutive Arik, אַריק, born Ariel Scheinermann, אריאל שיינרמן on 26 February 1928) is an Israeli statesman and retired general, who served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. He is currently in a permanent vegetative state after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006.
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Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin (Istanbul, March 15, 1932 – New York, June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as both an assistant, producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records. His collaborations include working with The Bee Gees, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Laura Branigan, Chaka Khan, Scritti Politti, Phil Collins, Daniel Rodriguez, Norah Jones, Richard Marx and Culture Club. Mardin was awarded 11 Grammy Awards.
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Armin Jordan
Armin Jordan (April 9, 1932 – September 20, 2006), was a Swiss conductor known for his interpretations of French music, Mozart and Wagner.
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Arnold Newman
Arnold Abner Newman (3 March 1918, New York, NY —6 June 2006, New York, NY) was an American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images.
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Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army general and president who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973. Among his titles, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1974 and President of the Republic from 1974 until transferring power to a democratically elected president in 1990.
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Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon ( hanja:潘基文; born 13 June 1944) is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India. In the foreign ministry he established a reputation for modesty and competence.
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Beatriz Sheridan
Beatriz Sheridan (June 25, 1934 – April 30, 2006) was a Mexican actress and director. She died from a heart attack.
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Bernard Orchard
Dom Bernard Orchard OSB MA (born 3 May 1910, died aged 96 on 28 November 2006) was an English Catholic Benedictine monk, headmaster and biblical scholar.
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Bernie Geoffrion
Joseph André Bernard Geoffrion (; February 14, 1931 – March 11, 2006), nicknamed Boom Boom, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered as one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972 following a 16-year career with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League.
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Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 - February 4, 2006) was an American writer, activist and feminist.
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Bill Skate
Sir William Jack Skate KCMG (September 26, 1953 – January 3, 2006) was a Papua New Guinea politician and statesman. He was the son of an Australian father and a native PNG mother. Though his career was turbulent and often marked by setbacks, he served in the highest posts in his country: Prime Minister, Speaker of the National Parliament, and acting Governor-General.
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Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American rhythm and blues musician from Houston, Texas raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy Award-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Band, Nat King Cole, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Ray Charles, George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Richie Sambora, Sly Stone, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ringo Starr. He played the Fender Rhodes electric piano and the Hammond organ on the Get Back sessions in 1969.
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Bismillah Khan
Ustad Bismillah Khan Sahib (lang-ur|; Telugu:ఉస్తాద్ బిస్మిల్లా ఖాన్; March 21, 1916 – August 21, 2006) was an Indian shehnai maestro. He was the third classical musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna (in 2001), the highest civilian honour in India and gained worldwide acclaim for playing the shehnai for more than eight decades .
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Bo Schembechler
Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler, Jr. (April 1, 1929 – November 17, 2006) was an American football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1989, compiling a career record of 234–65–8. Only Joe Paterno and Tom Osborne have recorded 200 victories in fewer games as a coach in major college football. In his 21 seasons as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines, Schembechler's teams amassed a record of 194–48–5 and won or shared 13 Big Ten Conference titles. Though his Michigan teams never won a national championship, in all but one season they finished ranked, and 16 times they placed in the final top ten of both major polls.
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Braguinha (composer)
Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga (March 29, 1907 – December 24, 2006), commonly known as Braguinha ("Little Braga") or João de Barro ("the Hornero"), was a Brazilian songwriter and occasional singer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he lived all his life. Braga studied architecture in his youth, and, when he started to write songs, he adopted the pseudonym "João de Barro" (the name of a bird that builds elaborate mud nests), as his father wouldn't approve of seeing the family name associated with the world of samba and popular music, then on the fringes of society.
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Brian Barratt-Boyes
Sir Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes, KBE (13 January 1924 – 8 March 2006) was a pioneering heart surgeon from New Zealand.
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Bryce Harland
William "Bryce" Harland QSO, (1931-1 February 2006), distinguished New Zealand diplomat and academic, who served as New Zealand's first Ambassador to China, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, and High Commissioner to London.
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Buck O'Neil
'''John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil''' (November 13, 1911 – October 6, 2006) was a first baseman and manager in Negro league baseball, most notably in the Negro American League with the Kansas City Monarchs. After his playing days, he became the first African American coach in Major League Baseball, and also worked as a scout. In his later years he became a popular and renowned speaker and interview subject, helping to renew widespread interest in the Negro leagues, and played a major role in establishing the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Byron Nelson
John Byron Nelson, Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.
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Calum Kennedy
Calum Kennedy (born as Malcolm Martin Kennedy on 2 June 1928, Isle of Lewis – died 15 April 2006, Aberdeen) was a Scottish singer.
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Caspar Weinberger
Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006), was an American politician, vice president and general counsel of Bechtel Corporation, and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 21, 1981, until November 23, 1987, making him the third longest-serving defense secretary to date, after Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld. He is also known for his role in the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Iran-Contra Affair.
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Catherine Leroy
Catherine Leroy (1945 – 8 July 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications.
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Chakufwa Chihana
Chakufwa Chihana (23 April 1939 – 12 June 2006) was a Malawian trade unionist and politician.
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Charles Haughey
Charles James "Charlie" Haughey (; 16 September 1925 – 13 June 2006) was Taoiseach of Ireland, serving three terms in office; from December 1979 to June 1981, March 1982 to December 1982 and March 1987 to February 1992. Haughey, one of the most controversial of Irish politicians in the 20th century, was the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil, from 1979 until 1992. He died of prostate cancer at the age of eighty.
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Charlie Drake
Charlie Drake (19 June 1925 – 23 December 2006) was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer.
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Chris Penn
Christopher Shannon "Chris" Penn (October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006) was an American film and television actor known for his roles in such films as The Wild Life, Reservoir Dogs, Footloose, True Romance, All the Right Moves and Pale Rider.
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Christopher Reeve
'''Christopher D'Olier Reeve''' (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter and author. He achieved stardom for his acting achievements, including his notable motion picture portrayal of the fictional superhero Superman.
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Cindy Walker
Cindy Walker (July 20, 1918 – March 23, 2006) was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring particular songs to specific recording artists. She produced a large body of songs that have been described as “direct, honest and unpretentious”. She had Top 10 hits spread over five decades.
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Clay Regazzoni
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Clyde Walcott
Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM (17 January 1926 - 26 August 2006) was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948.
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Colin Thiele
Colin Milton Thiele, AC (16 November 1920 – 5 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy and Blue Fin.
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Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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Cory Lidle
Cory Fulton Lidle (March 22, 1972 – October 11, 2006) was an American
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Craig C. Mello
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Craig Hinton
Craig Paul Alexander Hinton (May 7, 1964–December 3, 2006) was a British writer best known for his work on various spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who.
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Danny Rolling
Danny Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25, 2006), also known as The Gainesville Ripper, was an American convicted serial killer. After confessing to the murder and mutilation of five students in Gainesville, Florida in August 1990, he was ultimately executed. He also confessed to raping several of his victims, committing an additional 1989 triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990. In all, Rolling confessed to killing eight people.
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Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin (May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006) was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series and his portrayal in the film A Christmas Story of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his son overhears. He appeared as the tough-talking, funny detective in the 1950s television series ''Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. From 1959-1961, McGavin starred in the NBC western series Riverboat'', first with Burt Reynolds and then with Noah Beery, Jr.
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David Bronstein
David Ionovich Bronstein (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics. He was also a renowned chess writer.
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David Gemmell
David Andrew Gemmell (1 August 1948 – 28 July 2006) was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Best known for his debut, Legend, Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explore themes of honour, loyalty and redemption. With over one million copies sold, his work continues to sell worldwide.
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Denis Donaldson
Denis Martin Donaldson (Short Strand, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1950 – 4 April 2006 in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a member of Sinn Féin who was exposed in December 2005 as an informer in the employment of MI5 and the Special Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary).It was initially believed that the IRA were responsible for his killing although the Real IRA claimed responsibility for his murder almost three years later.
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Dennis Weaver
William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and the 1971 TV movie Duel.
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Dick Brooks
Dick Brooks (April 14, 1942 – February 1, 2006) was an American NASCAR driver. Born in Porterville, California, he was the 1969 NASCAR Rookie of the Year, and went on to win the 1973 Talladega 500. After he retired, he served as a NASCAR sportscaster for a brief period of time.
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Don Jardine
Don Jardine (March 24, 1940 – December 16, 2006) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known for his masked gimmick as "The Spoiler".
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Don Knotts
Jesse Donald "Don" Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, a role which earned him five Emmy Awards. He also played landlord Ralph Furley on the 1970s television sitcom ''Three's Company''.
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Dorothy C. Stratton
:For Dorothy Stratten, Playboy Playmate, refer to the article Dorothy Stratten.
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Dschinghis Khan
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Dutch Mason
Dutch Mason, CM (19 February 1938 – 23 December 2006) was a Canadian musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was inducted into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2005.
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Earl Woods
Earl Dennison Woods (March 5, 1932 – May 3, 2006) was a US Army infantry officer who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a college-level baseball player and writer, but is best remembered as the father of professional golfer Tiger Woods. Woods started his son in golf at a very early age, and coached him exclusively for his first years in the sport.
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Edgar Valter
Edgar Valter (21 September 1929 Tallinn - 4 March 2006 Tartu) was an Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity (1950-2005). His most famous creation is the [http://www.pokumaa.ee/pokuraamat.htm Pokuraamat] (the book of pokus).
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Elena Mukhina
Elena Vyatjeslavovna Mukhina () (June 1, 1960 – December 22, 2006), born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, was a former Soviet gymnast who won the All-Around title at the 1978 World Championships at Strasbourg, France. Her career was on the rise and she was widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until a 1979 broken leg left her out of several competitions, and the recovery from that injury combined with pressure to master a dangerous and difficult tumbling move caused her to fall and break her neck just two weeks before the opening of the 1980 Summer Olympics, leaving her permanently quadriplegic just one month past the age of 20.
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Elias Hrawi
Elias Hrawi () ,(September 4, 1925 - July 7, 2006) was a President of Lebanon, whose term of office ran from 1989 to 1998.
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Elizabeth Choy
Elizabeth Choy-Yong Su-Moi OBE () was a Singaporean war heroine, educator and councillor. Along with her husband, Choy Khun Heng, she supplied medicine, money and messages to British civilians interned in Changi Prison during the Second World War.
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Enolia McMillan
Enolia Pettigen McMillan (October 20, 1904 – October 24, 2006) was the first female national president of the NAACP.
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Ernie Stautner
Ernest Alfred Stautner (April 20, 1925 – February 16, 2006) was a German-born American football player and coach who starred as a defensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Ezra Fleischer
Ezra Fleischer (Hebrew: עזרא פליישר) (born 14 July 1928; died 25 July 2006) was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.
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Faas Wilkes
Servaas "Faas" Wilkes (October 13, 1923 – August 15, 2006) was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Dutch nation team, in which he scored 35 goals (average 0.92 goals per game). However, for a prolonged period of his career, June 1949 through till March 1955, he was banned from the national team since the KNVB did not allow professional players to participate.
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Federico Crescentini
Federico Crescentini (April 13, 1982–December 13, 2006) was a Sammarinese football Defender. He was international with his country in eight opportunities.
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Ferenc Puskás
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Florian ZaBach
Florian ZaBach (August 15, 1918 – February 25, 2006) was an American musician and TV personality.
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Francis L. Kellogg
Francis Leonard Kellogg (January 5, 1917–April 6, 2006) was a diplomat, a special assistant to the Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford Administrations and a prominent socialite in New York City.
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Frank Arthur Calder
: This article is about the Canadian politician. For the NHL executive, see also Frank Calder
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Frank Bainimarama
Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, CF, MSD, OStJ, Fijian Navy, known commonly as Frank Bainimarama and sometimes by the chiefly title RatuHerald on Sunday, Phil Taylor, Peaceful island village belies turmoil of national politics, 2006-12-10, page 20 (interview with Bainimarama's brother). (born 27 April 1954), is a Fijian naval officer and politician. He is the Commander of the Fijian Military Forces and, as of 5 January 2007, Interim Prime Minister. While serving as Prime Minister, he has also temporarily held various ministerial portfolios: Information, Home Affairs, Immigration, Public Service, Indigenous and Multi-Ethnic Affairs, Finance, and Foreign Affairs.
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Frank Stanton
Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 - December 24, 2006) was an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then vice chairman until 1973. He also served as the chairman of the Rand Corporation from 1961 until 1967.
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Fred Trueman
Frederick Sewards ("Fred") Trueman OBE (6 February 1931 – 1 July 2006) was an English cricketer, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history. A bowler of genuinely fast pace who was widely known as Fiery Fred, Trueman played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1949 until he retired in 1968. He represented England in 67 Test matches and was the first bowler to take 300 wickets in a Test career. He and Brian Statham opened the England bowling together for many years and formed one of the most famous bowling partnerships in Test cricket history.
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Freddie Garrity
Freddie Garrity (14 November 1936 – 19 May 2006) was the singer, frontman and comical element in the 1960s pop band, Freddie and the Dreamers.
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Freddie Laker
Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was a British airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982. Laker was one of the first airline owners to adopt the "no-frills" airline business model that has since proven to be very successful worldwide with companies such as Southwest (Southwest Airlines was one of the few other "no-frills" airlines in the world when Skytrain was launched), Ryanair, easyJet, AirAsia, WestJet and Virgin Blue.
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Freddy Fender
Freddy Fender (June 4, 1937 – October 14, 2006), born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, United States, was an American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. He is best known for his 1975 hits "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and the subsequent remake of his own "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights".
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George F. Smoot
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George Mackey
George Whitelaw Mackey (February 1, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri – March 15, 2006 in Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician. Mackey earned his bachelor of arts at Rice University (then the Rice Institute) in 1938 and obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1942 under the direction of Marshall H. Stone. He joined the Harvard University Mathematics Department in 1943, was appointed Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science in 1969 and remained there until he retired in 1985.
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he also became the only President of the United States who was elected neither President nor Vice-President.
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Gerald Levert
Gerald Levert (July 13, 1966 – November 10, 2006) was an American R&B; singer. Gerald Levert sang with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon in the R&B; trio LeVert. He was also a part of LSG, an R&B; supergroup comprising Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, and Levert. His father, Eddie Levert, is the lead singer of the 1970s soul group The O'Jays.
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Gerard Reve
Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (born December 14, 1923 in Amsterdam, Netherlands – died April 8, 2006 in Zulte, Belgium) was a Dutch writer. He adopted a shortened version of his name, Gerard Reve in 1973, and that is how he is known today. Together with W.F. Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch post-war literature. His 1981 novel De vierde man was the basis for Paul Verhoeven's 1983 film.
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Gert Fredriksson
Gert Fridolf Fredriksson (November 21, 1919 – July 5, 2006) was a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from 1942 to 1964. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won eight medals including six golds (1948: K-1 1000 m, K-1 10000 m; 1952: K-1 1000 m, 1956: K-1 1000 m, K-1 10000 m; 1960: K-2 1000 m), one silver (1952: K-1 10000 m), and one bronze (K-1 1000 m). At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Fredriksson was head coach of the Swedish team.
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Gica Petrescu
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Grigori Perelman
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (, ; born 13 June 1966), sometimes known as Grisha Perelman, is a Jewish Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology. In particular, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture. This solved in the affirmative the Poincaré conjecture, posed in 1904, which before its solution was viewed as one of the most important and difficult open problems in topology.
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György Faludy
György Faludy (September 22, 1910, Budapest - September 1, 2006, Budapest), sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian-Jewish poet, writer and translator.
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György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a composer, born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical music circles, but to the general public, he is best-known for the various pieces featured in the Stanley Kubrick films , The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut.
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Hani Mohsin
Hani Mohsin (18 June 1965 – 25 July 2006) was a Malaysian celebrity, actor and host of TV gameshow Roda Impian, the Malaysian version of Wheel of Fortune.
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Harry Browne
Harry Browne (June 17, 1933 – March 1, 2006) was an American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000.
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Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer (; July 6, 1912 – January 7, 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.
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Hilton Ruiz
Hilton Ruiz (May 29, 1952 – June 6, 2006) was a Puerto Rican American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player.
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Hirotaka Suzuoki
(March 6, 1950 - August 6, 2006) was a male seiyū and actor from Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture who graduated from Tokyo Keizai University.
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Hiroyuki Iwaki
(6 September 193213 June 2006) was a Japanese conductor and percussionist.
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Homesick James
Homesick James (April 30, 1910 - December 13, 2006) was an American blues musician. He is believed to have been born John William Henderson, but later used the name James A. Williamson and was sometimes referred to as Homesick James Williamson.
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Hugh Kawharu
Ian Hugh Kawharu, ONZ, FRSNZ (18 February 1927 - 19 September 2006) was a distinguished academic and paramount chief of the Ngāti Whātua Māori tribe.
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Hussein Maziq
Hussein Yousef Maziq () a Libyan politician (1918 – 12 May 2006 [http://www.rulers.org/2006-05.html]) was Prime Minister of Libya from 20 March 1965 to 2 July 1967. He was one of the most important men in the Kingdom era of Libya.
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Iain Macmillan
Iain Stewart Macmillan, (20 October 1938 - 8 May 2006) was the Scottish photographer famous for taking the cover photograph for The Beatles' album Abbey Road in 1969. After growing up in Scotland, he moved to London to become a professional photographer. He used a photo of Yoko Ono in a book he published in 1966 and was invited by Yoko to photograph her exhibit at Indica Gallery. She introduced him to John Lennon. John invited him to be the photographer for the cover of Abbey Road. He worked with the Lennons for several years even staying for a while at their home in New York.
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Ibrahim Rugova
Ibrahim Rugova (2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was an Albanian politician who was the first President of Kosovo and of its leading political party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).
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J Dilla
James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan. According to his obituary at NPR.org, he "was one of the music industry's most influential hip-hop artists, working for big-name acts like De La Soul, Busta Rhymes and Common."
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Jaap Penraat
Jaap (pronounced "yahp") Penraat (April 11, 1918 – June 25, 2006) was a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War.
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Jack Wild
Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was a British actor who achieved fame for his leading role in the 1969 children's TV series H.R. Pufnstuf and for his performances in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, and Oliver Reed. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16 for the role of the Artful Dodger in Oliver!.
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Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, sometimes struggling with alcoholism. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown, Jr. (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer and entertainer. Eventually referred to as "The Godfather of Soul", Brown started singing in church groups and worked his way up. He has been recognized as one of the most influential figures in the 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing. He was also called "the hardest working man in show business".cite news| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500049.html | work=The Washington Post | title=Hardworking Godfather of Soul | first=
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James van Allen
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Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times.
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Jean Roba
Jean Roba (July 28, 1930 - June 14, 2006) was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and became the first woman to hold this position.
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Joachim Fest
Joachim Clemens Fest (8 December 1926–11 September 2006) was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance. He was a leading figure in the debate among German historians about the Nazi period.
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Joe Rosenthal
Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war.
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Johannes Rau
Johannes Rau (16 January 1931 – 27 January 2006) was a German politician of the SPD. He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999, until 30 June 2004, and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998.
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John Allan Cameron
John Allan Cameron, CM (16 December 1938 - 22 November 2006) was a Canadian folk singer, "The Godfather of Celtic Music" in Canada. Noted for performing traditional music on his twelve string guitar, he released his first album in 1968. He released 10 albums during his lifetime and was featured on national television. He was a recipient of the East Coast Music Award's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Order of Canada, conferred in 2003.
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John C. Mather
:For other persons with a similar name, see John Mather.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John Feeney
John Feeney (August 10, 1922 - December 6, 2006) was a New Zealand-born director of documentary films. He worked with the New Zealand National Film Unit, National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and made films and did photography in Egypt. He was nominated for two Academy Awards.
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John Lyall
John Angus Lyall (24 February 1940 – 18 April 2006) was an English footballer and manager of Scottish descent. His mother, Catherine, was from the Isle of Lewis, his father, James, was from Kirriemuir. He was born in in Ilford, Essex.
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John Money
John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a psychologist, sexologist and author, specializing in research into sexual identity and biology of gender. He has been the subject of controversy due to his work with the non-consensual sex-reassignment of David Reimer.
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John Tenta
John Anthony Tenta (June 22, 1963 – June 7, 2006) was a Canadian professional wrestler, known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake and later Golga, and in World Championship Wrestling as Avalanche and The Shark.
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John W. Peterson
John W. Peterson (November 1, 1921 – September 20, 2006) was a songwriter who had a major influence on evangelical Christian music in the 1950s through the 1970s. He wrote over 1000 songs, and 35 cantatas.
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Johnnie Wilder, Jr.
Johnnie Wilder, Jr. (Johnnie James Wilder Jr. 3 July 1949 – 17 May 2006) was the co-founder and lead vocalist of the international R&B;/funk group Heatwave. Heatwave was a popular group during the late 1970s, with hits such as "Boogie Nights", "Mind Blowing Decisions", "Always and Forever" and "The Groove Line", on which Wilder sang co-lead vocals.
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Johnny Checketts
Wing Commander John "Johnny" Milne Checketts, DSO, DFC (20 February 1912 - 21 April 2006) was a World War II Flying ace.
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Jorge Porcel
Jorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta (September 7, 1936 – May 16, 2006) was a comedy actor and television host from Argentina. He was nicknamed El Gordo de América (''America's Fat Guy''). Porcel was often considered, along with Alberto Olmedo, one of Argentina's greatest comic actors of the twentieth century.
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Joseph Barbera
Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera ( ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an influential American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century. Through his young adult years, Barbera lived, attended college, and began his career in New York City.
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José Antonio Delgado
José Antonio Delgado Sucre (May 13, 1965 — July 22, 2006) was the first Venezuelan mountaineer to reach the summit of five eight-thousanders. He was one of the most experienced climbers in Latin America. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
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José Ramos-Horta
José Manuel Ramos-Horta (), GCL (born 26 December 1949) is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former Prime Minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as President after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election.
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Juice Leskinen
Juhani Juice Leskinen (former Pauli Matti Juhani "Juice" Leskinen), better known as Juice Leskinen (, not like the English word juice; born 19 February 1950 in Juankoski – died 24 November 2006 in Tampere), was one of the most prominent Finnish singer-songwriters of the late 20th century. From the early 1970s onward he released nearly 30 full-length albums, as well as writing song lyrics for dozens of Finnish artists. Several of Leskinen's songs have reached classic status in Finnish popular music, e.g., "Viidestoista yö", "Kaksoiselämää" and "Syksyn sävel". His early records are considered staples of the so-called Manserock movement of the mid-'70s. In addition to Leskinen's musical work, he extended his focus to poetry and playwriting with nine collections of verse and seven plays published.
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June Allyson
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. A later generation knew her as a spokesperson for Depend undergarments.
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June Pointer
June Antoinette Pointer Whitmore (November 30, 1953 – April 11, 2006) was an American Pop/R&B; singer and was a founding member/and lead vocalist of the vocal group The Pointer Sisters.
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Karel Appel
Christiaan Karel Appel (25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948.
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Kari S. Tikka
Kari Sulo Tikka (21 August 1944 in Lahti – 25 May 2006 in Helsinki) was a Finnish legal scholar. He was Professor of Finance Law at the University of Helsinki and one of Finland's leading experts on taxation.
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Kasey Rogers
Kasey Rogers (December 15, 1925 - July 6, 2006) was an American actress, best known for playing the second Louise Tate on the popular U.S. television sitcom Bewitched.
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Katherine Dunham
Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist who was trained as an anthropologist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century and has been called the "Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance".
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Ken Hart
Ken Hart (May 7, 1917 - February 12, 2006) was an American World War II pilot, publisher, composer, actor, editor, lobbyist, writer, disc jockey and campaign manager. He was born in Long Beach, New York and died in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001. Lay was the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1985 until his resignation on January 23, 2002, except for a few months in 2000 when he was chairman and Jeffrey Skilling was CEO.
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Kenneth Sivertsen
Kenneth Sivertsen (16 January 1961 – 24 December 2006) was a Norwegian musician, composer, poet, and comedian.
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King Floyd
King Floyd (February 13, 1945 – March 6, 2006) was a New Orleans soul singer and songwriter, best known for his Top 10 hit from 1970, "Groove Me".
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Kirby Puckett
Kirby Puckett (March 14, 1960 – March 6, 2006) was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire major-league career with the Minnesota Twins from 1984 to 1995. He is the Twins franchise's all-time leader (1961–present) in career hits, runs, doubles and total bases. His .318 career batting average was the highest by any right-handed American League batter in the second half of the 20th century.
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Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt (August 2, 1932 – December 13, 2006) was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee into three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League (AFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS), as well as MLS predecessor the North American Soccer League (NASL). He was also the founder and owner of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs, the Kansas City Wizards and at his death owned two MLS teams, Columbus Crew and FC Dallas. The oldest annual team tournament in the U.S. in any sport, soccer's U.S. Open Cup (founded 1914) now bears his name in honor of his pioneering role in that sport stateside. In Kansas City, Hunt also helped establish the Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun theme parks. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972; into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1982; and into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993. The National Soccer Hall of Fame bestowed upon Hunt their Medal of Honor in 1999, an award given to only 3 recipients in history thus far. He was married for 42 years to his second wife Norma, and had four children, Sharron, Lamar Jr., Daniel, and Clark Hunt.
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Lawrence Stephen
Lawrence Stephen (died 2006) was a political figure from the Pacific nation of Nauru.
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Lee Jong-wook
Lee Jong-wook (1945–2006) was the Director-General of the World Health Organization for three years.
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Lennart Meri
Lennart Georg Meri () (29 March 1929 – 14 March 2006) was a writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was a leader of the Estonian independence movement.
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Leo Chiosso
Leo Chiosso (b. Turin, 8 August 1920 – d. Chieri, Italy, 26 November 2006) was an Italian lyricist mostly known for his work with Fred Buscaglione. They formed a songwriting duo who produced about forty songs and created Buscaglione's public persona, a humorous tough guy with a penchant for whisky and women.
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Les Foote
Leslie Roy Foote (20 August 1924 – 11 April 2006) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.
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Lillian Asplund
Lillian Gertrud Asplund (October 21, 1906 – May 6, 2006) was one of the last living survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
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Lister Sinclair
Lister Sheddon Sinclair, OC (January 9, 1921 - October 16, 2006) was a Canadian broadcaster, playwright and polymath.
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Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was a four-term United States senator (1971 until 1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. Treasury Secretary during the early years of the Clinton administration.
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Louis Rukeyser
Louis Richard "Lou" Rukeyser (January 30, 1933 – May 2, 2006) was an American financial journalist, columnist, and commentator, through print, radio, and television.
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Louise Smith
Louise Smith (July 31, 1916 in Barnesville, Georgia – March 4, 2006) was tied for the second woman to race in NASCAR at the top level. She was known as "the first lady of racing." [http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Louise_Smith.htm]
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Lucjan Wolanowski
Lucjan Wilhelm Wolanowski (born Lucjan Kon on February 26, 1920, Warsaw, Poland, died February 20, 2006, Warsaw), pseudonyms: Wilk; Waldemar Mruczkowski; W. Lucjański; (L.W.); lu; Lu; (lw); WOL., Polish journalist, writer and traveller.
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Lynne Perrie
Lynne Perrie (7 April 1931 - 24 March 2006), was an English actress. She was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, and was the sister of comedian Duggie Brown.
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Ma Ji
Ma Ji (; Pinyin: Mǎ Jì; 1934–December 20, 2006), born Ma Shuhuai (; Pinyin: Mǎ Shùhuái), was a xiangsheng performer in China. He was one of his generation's most popular and influential xiangsheng performer and was mentor to many later xiangsheng performers.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( Mahmūd Ahmadinezhād , ; born 28 October 1956) is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country.
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Mako (actor)
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Malcolm Arnold
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 - 23 September 2006) was an English composer and symphonist.
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Maria Capovilla
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Marilyn Waltz
Marilyn Ardith Waltz (November 5, 1931 in Waukesha, Wisconsin – December 23, 2006 in Medford, Oregon) was an American actress and model.
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Masumi Okada
was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen" and wife of the statue's sculptor, Edvard Eriksen. Masumi Okada was the younger of two sons; his older brother, Taibi "Erick" Okada, was also an actor and presenter—known professionally as E. H. Eric, he was the emcee for the Beatles' 1966 concert in Tokyo.
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Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress in film, theater and television. She was also elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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Mauri Favén
Professor Mauri Favén (born 26 August 1920 in Tampere, – 23 February 2006 in Helsinki) was a Finnish painter. His uncle was the painter Antti Favén and his grandfather's brother was the painter Aukusti Uotila.
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Michael John Rogers
'''Michael ('Mike') John Rogers''' (5 October 1932–10 October 2006) was an English ornithologist and Honorary Secretary to the British Birds Rarities Committee.
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Mickey Hargitay
Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay (January 6, 1926 – September 14, 2006) was an actor and Mr. Universe 1955. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He also is noted for his marriage to Jayne Mansfield, and as the father of actress Mariska Hargitay.
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Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was a U.S. author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. In 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time best-selling fiction titles in the U.S.
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Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas, born Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr. (August 11, 1925 – August 11, 2006) was an American entertainer.
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, a professor at the University of Chicago, and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Among scholars, he is best known for his theoretical and empirical research, especially consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.
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Muhammad
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh (; ; also spelled Muhammed or Mohammed) (ca. 570/571 Mecca[مَكَةَ ]/[ مَكَهْ ] – June 8, 632), was the founder of the religion of Islam, and is regarded by Muslims as a messenger and prophet of , the greatest law-bearer in a series of Islamic prophets, and, by most Muslims, the last prophet as taught by the . Muslims thus consider him the restorer of an uncorrupted original monotheistic faith (islām) of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other prophets. He was also active as a diplomat, merchant, philosopher, orator, legislator, reformer, military general, and, according to Muslim belief, an agent of divine action. In Michael H. Hart's The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Muhammad is described as the most influential person in history. Hart asserted that Muhammad was "supremely successful" in both the religious and secular realms.
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Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Spark, DBE (1 February 1918 in Edinburgh – 13 April 2006 in Florence) was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark to its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American libertarian socialist social philosopher, environmentalist/conservationist, speaker, and writer. For much of his life he called himself an anarchist, although as early as 1995 he privately renounced his identification with the anarchist movement. A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin was the founder of the social ecology movement within libertarian socialist and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books on politics, philosophy, history, and urban affairs as well as ecology.
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NAACP
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Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (, ) (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
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Nasreen Huq
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Natascha Kampusch
Natascha Kampusch (born 17 February 1988 in Vienna) is an Austrian television hostess mostly known for her abduction at the age of 10 on 2 March 1998. Kampusch was held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006. The media attention later led to her signing a contract with Austrian channel Puls 4 for her own talk show, which had its premiere on 1 June 2008.
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Neroli Fairhall
Neroli Susan Fairhall MBE (26 August 1944 - 11 June 2006) was a New Zealand athlete, who was the first paraplegic competitor in the Olympic Games.
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Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952), generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing.
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Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.
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Oscar Miguez
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P. F. Strawson
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was appointed as a college lecturer at University College, Oxford in 1947 and became a tutorial fellow the following year until 1968. On his retirement in 1987, he returned to the college and continued working there until shortly before his death.
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Paul Arizin
Paul Joseph Arizin (April 9, 1928 – December 12, 2006), nicknamed "Pitchin' Paul," was an American basketball player who spent his entire National Basketball Association career with the Philadelphia Warriors from 1950 to 1962. He retired with the third highest career point total (16,266) in NBA history, and was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History upon its 50th anniversary in 1996. He was a high-scoring forward at Villanova University before being drafted by the Warriors of the fledgling NBA.
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Paul Dana
Paul Dana (April 15, 1975 – March 26, 2006) was an American race car driver in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series.
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Paul Mauriat
Paul Mauriat (Marseille, 4 March 1925 – 3 November 2006 in Perpignan) was a French orchestra leader, specializing in light music. He is best known in the United States for his million selling remake of André Popp's "Love is Blue", which was #1 for 5 weeks in 1968. Other recordings for which he is known include El Bimbo, "Toccata" and "Penelope."
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Peter Benchley
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 12, 2006) was an American author, best known for his novel Jaws and its subsequent film adaptation, the latter co-written by Benchley (with Carl Gottlieb) and directed by Steven Spielberg. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including The Deep and The Island.
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Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974).
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Peter Snow (doctor)
Dr Peter Snow (1935 - 28 February 2006) was a general practitioner who served the New Zealand rural community of Tapanui for over 30 years. He was president of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs from 1998–99 and received their highest honour, Distinguished Fellowship, in 2001. He was a member of the Otago Hospital Board and its successor, the District Health Board.
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Peter Tomarken
Peter David Tomarken (December 7, 1942 March 13, 2006) was an American television personality primarily known as the host of Press Your Luck.
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Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (born 1 October 1930 in Lille – died 23 November 2006 in Paris) was a French film actor.
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Phyllis Fraser
Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner (April 13, 1916 – November 25, 2006) was an American actress, journalist, and children's book publisher, and the co-founder of Beginner Books.
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Pierre Amine Gemayel
Pierre Amine Gemayel (Arabic: ; commonly known as Pierre Gemayel Jr., or simply Pierre Gemayel; September 24, 1972 – November 21, 2006) was a Lebanese politician in the Kataeb Party, better known in English as the Phalange Party. Lebanon's second-youngest MP, he was a rising star in his party. He was a vocal critic of Syria's military presence in and political domination of Lebanon, and an active member of the anti-Syrian and pro-Western parliamentary majority, the March 14 Alliance.
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pilgrim
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Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (; ; ; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. He succeeded John Paul II.
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Pramod Mahajan
Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan (प्रमोद व्यंकटेश महाजन in Devanagari) (30 October 1949 – 3 May 2006) was a prominent Indian politician. He was one of the most powerful second generation leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and, at the time of his death, was locked in a power struggle over who would take over the reins of the BJP when the current aging leadership retires. He belonged to a group of relatively young "technocrat" leaders who lack a grassroots political base, although he was fairly popular in his home state of Maharashtra in western India.
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President of Iran
The President of Iran is the highest popularly elected official in the Islamic Republic of Iran, but is subordinate to the Supreme Leader. According to the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran the president is responsible for
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Proof (rapper)
DeShaun Dupree Holton (October 2, 1973 – April 11, 2006), better known by his stage name Proof, was a Detroit rapper of African American and Haitian descent. During his career he was a member of the hip hop groups Goon Sqwad, 5 Elementz, Promatic, and most notably D12. He was a very close childhood friend of hip hop superstar Eminem. In 2006, Proof was shot and killed during an altercation at a nightclub.
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Qingzang railway
The Qingzang railway, Qinghai–Xizang railway, or Qinghai–Tibet railway (; ), is a high-altitude railway that connects Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in People's Republic of China.
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Rainer Barzel
Rainer Candidus Barzel (June 20, 1924 – August 26, 2006) was a German politician of the CDU.
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Rajkumar
:This page relates to the Kannada actor, Rajkumar; for other uses see Raj Kumar.
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Raul Cortez
Raul Christiano Machado Cortez (August 28, 1932 – July 18, 2006) was a Brazilian actor. He was born in São Paulo, São Paulo state and was father of actress Lígia Cortez.
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Raymond Devos
Raymond Devos (November 9, 1922, Mouscron, Belgium - June 15, 2006, Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, Yvelines, France) was a French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour.
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Raymond P. Shafer
Raymond Philip Shafer (March 5, 1917 – December 12, 2006) served as the 39th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1971. He had previously served as Lieutenant Governor from 1963 to 1967. He was a national leader of the moderate wing of the Republican Party in the late 1960s.
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Red Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20, 1917 – October 28, 2006) was an American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Boston Celtics. After he retired from coaching, he served as president and front office executive of the Celtics until his death. As a coach, he won 938 games (a record at his retirement) and nine National Basketball Association (NBA) championships (surpassed only by Phil Jackson). As general manager and team president of the Celtics, he won an additional seven NBA titles, for a grand total of 16 in a span of 29 years, making him one of the most successful team officials ever in the history of North American professional sports.
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Richard Burmer
Richard S. Burmer (September 19, 1955 – September 9, 2006) was an American composer, engineer, sound designer and musician. His work with electronic music combined with musical styles and instruments from around the world has formed his own unique and distinct sound.
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Richard Carleton
Richard George Carleton (11 July 1943 – 7 May 2006) was a multi-Logie Award winning Australian television journalist.
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Richard Fleischer
Richard O. Fleischer (December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006) was an American film director.
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Rob Levin
Robert Levin (December 16, 1955 – September 16, 2006), also known as lilo, was the founder of the freenode IRC network and Executive Director of the PDPC charity that helped fund freenode. A computer programmer since 1968, he worked as an administrator and an applications programmer from 1978 onwards.
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Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.
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Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt (December 13, 1937, Reval (Tallinn), Estonia – June 30, 2006, Frankfurt am Main) was a German writer, painter, caricaturist and poet.
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Robert Stafford
Robert Theodore Stafford (August 8, 1913 – December 23, 2006) was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy career, he served as the 71st Governor of Vermont, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator. A Republican, Stafford was generally considered a moderate or liberal. He is best remembered for his staunch environmentalism, his work on higher education, and his support, as an elder statesman, for the 2000 Vermont law legalizing civil unions for gay couples.
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Rocio Jurado
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Roger D. Kornberg
Roger David Kornberg (born ) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Ron Greenwood
'''Ronald 'Ron' Greenwood''' CBE (11 November 1921 — 9 February 2006) was an English football player and manager, best known for being manager of the English national football team from 1977 until 1982. He had previously been a successful manager of West Ham United, and his role as England manager was his final role in football.
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Ross A. McGinnis
Ross Andrew McGinnis (June 14, 1987 – December 4, 2006) was a soldier who served in the United States Army during the Iraq War and was posthumously awarded the United States' highest decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor. While serving as the gunner in a HMMWV, his convoy was attacked and a hand grenade was thrown into his vehicle. McGinnis was subsequently killed in action when he threw himself on the grenade, saving the lives of at least four other soldiers in the vehicle. He was the fourth soldier to receive the Medal of Honor during the Iraq War, which was presented to his family following his death.
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Ross M. Lence
Ross Marlo Anthony Lence, Ph.D. Indiana University (1970), B.A. University of Chicago (1966), was a professor of Political Science at the University of Houston from 1971-2006, where he was John and Rebecca Moores Scholar and held the Ross M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair. He taught Political Philosophy, American Political Thought, and American Government as a member of the Political Science and Honors College faculties. His edited volume of the works of John C. Calhoun, Union and Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun, is one of the foremost references on the statesman.
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Roy Schuiten
Cyclist
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Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown (January 30, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American pop and R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B; music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "The house that Ruth built" (alluding to the popular nickname for Old Yankee Stadium).
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Ryutaro Hashimoto
Ryutaro Hashimoto (橋本 龍太郎 Hashimoto Ryūtarō, July 29, 1937 - July 1, 2006) was a Japanese politician who served as the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan from January 11, 1996 to July 30, 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP through most of the 1990s and remained a powerful back-room player in Japanese politics until scandal forced him to resign his leadership position in 2004. Disgraced, he chose not to stand in the general election of 2005, and effectively retired from politics. He died on July 1, 2006 at a Tokyo hospital.
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S. Yizhar
Yizhar Smilansky (, 27 September 1916 – 21 August 2006), better known by his pen name S. Yizhar (), was an Israeli writer and a great innovator in modern Hebrew literature. His pen name was given to him by the poet and editor Yitzhak Lamdan, when in 1938 he published Yizhar's first story Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa in his literary journal Galleons. From then on, Yizhar signed his works with his pen name.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: ; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.
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Samuel Bowers
Samuel Holloway Bowers (photo [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers;/BOWERS.jpg]) (August 25, 1924, – November 5, 2006), was a leader of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a militant Mississippi offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Saparmurat Niyazov
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov; 19 February 1940 - 21 December 2006), (Russian: Сапармурат Атаевич Ниязов) (Turkmen: Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow) was a Turkmen politician who served as President (later President for Life) of Turkmenistan from 2 November 1990 until his death in 2006. He was First Secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 and continued to lead Turkmenistan for 15 years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. His name in English is a romanization of the Russian spelling Сапармурат Атаевич Ниязов of his Turkmen name.
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Scott Crossfield
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Sergi López Segú
Sergi López Segú (also Sergio, born October 6, 1967 in Granollers – died November 4, 2006 in Granollers) was a Spanish footballer, who played mainly as a left back.
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Shamil Basayev
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (; January 14, 1965 – July 10, 2006) was a Chechen militant Islamist and a leader of the Chechen terrorist movement.
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Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over fifty years, until her death in 2006. Two-time Academy Award winner, Winters is probably most remembered for her roles in A Place in the Sun, The Big Knife, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, and The Poseidon Adventure.
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Shigeru Kayano
(June 15, 1926 – May 6, 2006) was one of the last native speakers of the Ainu language and a leading figure in the Ainu ethnic movement in Japan.
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Shohei Imamura
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Sino-Indian War
The Sino-Indian War (), also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict (), was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war, but other issues played a role. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to the Dalai Lama. India initiated a Forward Policy in which it placed outposts along the border, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of a Line of Actual Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1959.
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Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (sometimes transliterated as Miloshevich; ; Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. He served as the President of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Republic of Serbia from 1989 until 1997 in three terms and as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He also led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990. In the midst of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Milošević was charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), but the trial ended after Milošević died in his cell.
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Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), known simply as Steve Irwin and nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian television personality, wildlife expert, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series co-hosted with his wife Terri (née Raines). Together, the couple also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Irwin's parents in Beerwah, Queensland.
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Steve Stavro
Steve Atanas Stavro, CM (September 27, 1926 - April 24, 2006), born Manoli Stavroff Sholdas, was a Macedonian Canadian businessman, grocery store magnate, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, sports team owner, and a noted philanthropist.
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Sun Yun-suan
Sun Yun-suan () (November 11, 1913 – February 15, 2006) was a Chinese engineer and politician. As minister of economic affairs from 1969 to 1978 and Premier of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1984, he was credited for overseeing the transformation of Taiwan from being a mainly agricultural economy to an export powerhouse.
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Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006), born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic/progressive rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use.
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Ta Mok
Ta Mok (), which means "Grandfather Mok" in Khmer, was the nom de guerre of Chhit Choeun (1924 – 21 July 2006), a senior figure in the leadership of the Khmer Rouge. His name has also been reported as Ek Choeun, Oeung Choeun and Ung Choeun, and he was also known as "Brother Number Five".
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Tamil people
Tamil people (), also called Tamils or Tamilians, are a linguistic and ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. They speak Tamil (), with a recorded history going back two millennia. Emigrant communities are found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Canada, and the UK. The Tamils are mostly Hindus with sizable Christian and Muslim populations.
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Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
Tāufaāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, KStJ (4 July 1918 – 10 September 2006) son of Queen Sālote Tupou III and her consort Prince Viliami Tungī Mailefihi, was the king of Tonga from the death of his mother in 1965 until his own death in 2006. He was married to Queen Halaevalu Mataaho Ahomee, born in 1926, and the couple had four children:
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Te Atairangi Kaahu
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Ted Grant
Edward "Ted" Grant (born Isaac Blank, 9 July 1913 in Germiston, South Africa – 20 July 2006 in London) was a South African Trotskyist political theorist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. Ted Grant was a founding member of the Militant Tendency, an influential Trotskyist group in the United Kingdom.
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Telê Santana
Telê Santana da Silva, also known as Telê Santana (July 26, 1931 – April 21, 2006), was a Brazilian football manager and former player. He was born in Itabirito, Minas Gerais.
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Tetsuro Tamba
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Thaksin Shinawatra
Thaksin Shinawatra (, ; ; born 26 July 1949) is a Thai billionaire politician and businessman who was Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006, when he was deposed in a military coup.
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Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, having earned an estimated $90.5 million from winnings and endorsements in 2010.
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Tobías Lasser
Tobías Lasser (May 24, 1911 – May 25, 2006), was a recognized Venezuelan botanist, being a fundamental pillar in the creation of the Botanical Garden of Caracas, the School of Biology and the Faculty of Sciences of the Central University of Venezuela. He was born in Agua Larga, Falcón State, Venezuela.
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Tom Weir
Thomas Weir MBE, better known as Tom (December 29, 1914 - July 6, 2006) was a Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. He was best known for his long-running television series ''Weir's Way''.
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Trevor Berbick
Trevor Berbick (August 1, 1954 – October 28, 2006) was a Jamaican - Canadian heavyweight boxer and champion who fought as a professional from 1976 until 2000. He was the victim of a homicide near his hometown of Norwich, Jamaica. Berbick briefly held the WBC heavyweight title in 1986, before losing it to Mike Tyson on November 22, 1986, by a TKO in the second round. He was the last man to fight Muhammad Ali, winning a 10-round unanimous decision in Nassau, Bahamas on December 11, 1981.
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Val Guest
Val Guest (11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s.
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Valentin Elizalde
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Valentín Paniagua
Valentín Paniagua Corazao (23 September 1936 – 16 October 2006) was a Peruvian politician and former Interim President of Peru. Paniagua was elected by the Peruvian Congress to serve as interim president of the country after Alberto Fujimori was declared Morally Unfit by Peruvian Congress in November 2000.
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Wally Foreman
Walter "Wally" John Foreman (5 January 1948 - 2 November 2006) OAM was a sports administrator and commentator for ABC Radio program "Grandstand" based in Perth, Western Australia.
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Walter Booker
Walter Booker (December 17, 1933 – November 24, 2006) was an American jazz musician. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and tremolo techniques.
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Walter Hadlee
Walter Arnold Hadlee, CBE (4 June 1915 - 29 September 2006) was a New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain. He played domestic first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago. Three of his five sons, Sir Richard, Dayle and Barry played cricket for New Zealand. The Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, which is competed for by Test teams from New Zealand and Australia is named in honour of the Hadlee family and the Australian Chappell family (see Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell).
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Willi Ninja
Willi Ninja (April 12, 1961 – September 2, 2006) was an American dancer and choreographer best known for his appearance in the documentary film Paris is Burning.
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William B. Ziff, Jr.
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William Herskovic
William Herskovic (June 1914 - March 3, 2006) was a Holocaust survivor and humanitarian. His escape from Auschwitz in 1942 and early eyewitness testimony inspired Belgium's opposition to Nazi Germany during World War II, and alerted the Resistance to the atrocities that were taking place in the concentration camps. Because of Herskovic's escape and testimony, hundreds of lives were saved.
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William Styron
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
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Wilson Tucker
Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker (November 23, 1914 – October 6, 2006) was an American mystery, action adventure, and science fiction writer, who wrote as Wilson Tucker.
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Wolfgang Priklopil
Wolfgang Priklopil (May 14, 1962 in Hainburg an der Donau – August 23, 2006 in Vienna) was an Austrian communications technician. He kidnapped the then 10 year old Natascha Kampusch and held her for eight years, committing suicide after she escaped.
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Xinhua News Agency
The Xinhua News Agency (, , , literally "New China News Agency") is the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC. It is the largest news agency in the PRC, ahead of the China News Service. Xinhua is subordinate to the PRC State Council and reports to the Communist Party of China's Publicity and Public Information Departments.
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Yossi Banai
Yossi Banai (Hebrew: יוסי בנאי) (November 5, 1932 – May 11, 2006) was an Israeli performer, singer, actor, and dramatist.
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Yukio Aoshima
was a Japanese politician who served as a Governor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a novelist, a film director and a TV-actor.
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Zarra
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Albay
Albay is a province of the Philippines located in the Bicol Region in Luzon. Its capital is Legazpi City and the province borders Camarines Sur to the north and Sorsogon to the south. Also to the northeast is Lagonoy Gulf.
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Baghdad
Baghdad (, , ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is coterminous. Having a population estimated between 7 and 7.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest city in the Arab World (after Cairo, Egypt).
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Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital, largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (, pronounced ), or กรุงเทพฯ Krung Thep (, meaning "city of angels" for short, it was a small trading post at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River during the Ayutthaya Kingdom. It came to the forefront of Siam when it was given the status as the capital city in 1768 after the burning of Ayutthaya. However, the current Rattanakosin Kingdom did not begin until 1782 when the capital was moved across the river by Rama I after the death of King Taksin. The Rattanakosin capital is now more formally called "Phra Nakhon" (), pertaining to the ancient boundaries in the metropolis' core and the name Bangkok now incorporates the urban build-up since the 18th century which has its own public administration and governor.
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Cellardyke
Cellardyke is a village in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The village is to the immediate east of Anstruther (the two effectively being conjoined) and is to the south of Kilrenny.
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East Timor
East Timor, officially named Timor-Leste, (Tetum: Timór-Leste; officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor. The small country of 15,410 km² (5,400 sq mi) is located about 640 km (400 mi) northwest of Darwin, Australia.
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Egypt
Egypt (; , Miṣr, ; Egyptian Arabic: مصر, Maṣr, ; Coptic: , ; Greek: Αίγυπτος, Aiguptos; Egyptian:
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Ethiopia
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Fife
Fife (; ) is a county and council area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. It was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland.
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Fiji
Fiji (; ), officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands (; ), is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 2000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its more immediate neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north. Fiji has had inhabitants since the second millennium B.C. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch and the British explored Fiji.Fiji was a British colony up until 1970; British occupation lasted almost a century. Because of the abundance of forest, mineral, and fish resources, Fiji is one of the most developed economies in the Pacific island realm. Today, the main sources of foreign exchange are its tourist industry and sugar exports. The country's currency is the Fijian dollar.
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Gaza
Gaza ( , ; also referred to as Gaza City) is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 410,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories.
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Georgia (country)
Georgia (, sak’art’velo ; ) is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 km² and its population is more than 4.6 million. Georgia's constitution is that of a representative democracy, organized as a unitary, semi-presidential republic. It is currently a member of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization, the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Community of Democratic Choice, the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, and the Asian Development Bank. The country aspires to join NATO and the European Union.
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Ghana
The Republic of Ghana is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The word Ghana means "Warrior King" and is derived from the ancient
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Indonesia
Indonesia ( or ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With a population of around 238 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the world's largest population of Muslims. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies.
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Iran
Iran ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was also known to the western world as Persia. Both Persia and Iran are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, Iran is the name used officially in political contexts.
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Israel
Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (also spelled Kazakstan, , Qazaqstan, قازاقستان, pronounced ; ), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country located in Central Asia and partially in East Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of 2,727,300 km² is greater than Western Europe. It is neighbored clockwise from the north by Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and also borders on a significant part of the Caspian Sea. The capital was moved in 1997 from Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, to Astana.
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Lagos
Lagos (, or overseas or Èkó in the Yoruba language) is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. It is currently the second most populous city in Africa, after Cairo, and is estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa (UN-HABITAT, 2008) and the seventh fastest growing in the world. The city is the economic and financial capital of Nigeria.
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Lebanon
Lebanon ( or ; ; ), officially the Republic of Lebanon (Arabic: ; French: ), is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south. Lebanon's location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has dictated its rich history, and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity.
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Luzon
Luzon is the largest and most economically and politically important island in the Philippines. It is also the name for one of the three island groups in the country centred on the Island of Luzon, the other two being the Visayas and Mindanao. Luzon as an island group includes the island of Luzon itself, plus the Batanes and Babuyan groups of islands to the north, and the main and outlying islands of Catanduanes, Marinduque, Masbate, Romblon, and Mindoro in the south.. It is home to the capital city, Manila.
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Madrid
Madrid (Spanish , English ) is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million (as of December 2009); the entire population of the metropolitan area (urban area and suburbs) is calculated to be nearly 6 million. It is the third-most populous municipality in the European Union after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third-most populous in the European Union after Paris and London. The city spans a total of 698 km² (234 sq mi).
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Mecca
Mecca (), also spelled Makkah (occasionally 'Bakkah') (; Makkah and in full: transliterated Makkah Al Mukarramah ) is a city in Saudi Arabia, and the holiest meeting site in Islam, closely followed by Medina.
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Meerut
Meerut (Hindi: मेरठ) is a metropolitan city,in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is an ancient city located north-east of New Delhi. It is a part of the National Capital Region of India. It is the 16th largest metropolitan area in India and the 17th largest city in India. It ranked 292 in 2006 and 242 in 2010 in the list of largest cities and urban areas in the world. It is the fastest developing city of Uttar Pradesh after Noida and Ghaziabad. It is spread about 172 square km. The total metropolitan area is 198 km which is third in Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow and Kanpur. It has the 2nd largest army cantonment of the country.
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Mina, Saudi Arabia
Mina is a desert location situated some 5 kilometres to the east of the Islamic holy city of Mecca (Makkah) in Saudi Arabia. It stands on the road from Mecca's city centre to the Hill of Arafat.
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Montenegro
Montenegro ( or ; Montenegrin: Crna Gora, Црна Гора, , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the southeast. Its capital and largest city is Podgorica, while Cetinje is designated as the Prijestonica (Пријестоница), meaning the former Royal Capital City.
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Multan
(Punjabi/{{lang-ur|, from ancient Sanskrit: Moolasthan) is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province. Multan District has a population of over 4.5 million— It is situated on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about from Islamabad, from Lahore. & from Karachi.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (; , ', ), previously known as Bombay' (), is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the second most populous city in the world, with a population of approximately 14 million. The official language of Mumbai is Marathi. But many other languages are also widely used, particularly the Mumbaiian Hindi''. Along with the neighbouring urban areas, including the cities of Navi Mumbai and Thane, it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world. Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. As of 2009, Mumbai was named an Alpha world city. Mumbai is also the richest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South or Central Asia.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, ) is an Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
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Nigeria
Nigeria (), officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims and Christians with a very small minority who practice traditional religion.
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Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk ( or ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 237,764 as of the 2000 census, it is Virginia's second-largest city behind neighboring Virginia Beach.
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North Korea
North Korea, officially the '''Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK'''; Chosongul: 조선민주주의인민공화국), is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea. The Amnok River and the Tumen River form the border between North Korea and the People's Republic of China. A section of the Tumen River in the extreme northeast is the border with Russia.
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Nueva Rosita
Nueva Rosita is a town in the northeastern part of the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico. It lies about 11 km northwest of the city of Sabinas on Federal Highway 57, and serves as the municipal seat of San Juan de Sabinas municipality.
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Pakistan
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Pasig City
The City of Pasig (Filipino: Lungsod ng Pasig) is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila in the Philippines. It used to be the capital of the province of Rizal before Metro Manila was formed. Located along the eastern border of Metro Manila, Pasig is bordered on the west by Quezon City and Mandaluyong City; to the north by Marikina City; to the south by Makati City, Pateros, and Taguig City; and to the east by Antipolo City, the municipality of Cainta and Taytay in the province of Rizal.
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Philippines
The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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PIA Flight 688
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 (PK688, PIA688) was scheduled to operate from Multan to Lahore and Islamabad at 12:05 pm on 10 July 2006. It crashed into a field after bursting into flames a few minutes after takeoff from Multan International Airport. All 41 passengers and four crewmembers on board were killed.
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Sadr City
Sadr City () is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim and later unofficially renamed Sadr City after deceased Shia leader Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.
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Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (), commonly known as Saudi Arabia, occasionally spelled '''Sa'udi Arabia''', is the largest Arab country of the Middle East. It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south. The Persian Gulf lies to the northeast and the Red Sea to its west. It has an estimated population of 28 million, and its size is approximately . The kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of the Two Holy Mosques" in reference to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places in Islam. The two mosques are Masjid al-Haram (in Mecca) and Masjid Al-Nabawi (in Medina). The current kingdom was founded by Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, whose efforts began in 1902 when he captured the Al-Saud’s ancestral home of Riyadh, and culminated in 1932 with the proclamation and recognition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, though its national origins go back as far as 1744 with the establishment of the First Saudi State. Saudi Arabia's government takes the form of an Islamic absolute monarchy. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have repeatedly expressed concern about the state of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland includes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.
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Serbia
Serbia (pronounced: ), officially the Republic of Serbia (), is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central- and Southeastern Europe, covering the southern lowlands of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west; its border with Albania is disputed. Serbia's capital city, Belgrade, is among the most populous in Southeastern Europe.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK, , ) and sometimes referred to simply as Korea, is a state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population of .
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South Ossetia
South Ossetia ( or ; , Khussar Iryston; , Samxret Oseti; , Yuzhnaya Osetiya) or Tskhinvali Region (, Tsxinvalis regioni; , Tskhinvalskiy region) is a disputed region and partly recognized state in the South Caucasus, located in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Southern Leyte
Southern Leyte (Filipino:Timog Leyte) is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Maasin City is the capital of the province. Southern Leyte was once a sub-province of Leyte before it was divided from the latter. Limasawa, an island to the south is part of the province where the first Christian mass was held and is said to be the birthplace of Christianity in the Philippines.
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (, ) is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai (formerly known as Madras). Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the States of Puducherry, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It is bound by the Eastern Ghats in the north, the Nilgiri, the Anamalai Hills, and Palakkad on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Gulf of Mannar, the Palk Strait in the south east, and by the Indian Ocean in the south.
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Thailand
Thailand ( or ; Ratcha Anachak Thai, ), formerly Siam (, ), is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
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Turin
Turin (, pronounced ; Piedmontese: Turin, pronounced ) is a major city as well as a business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 (November 2008) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants; the Turin metropolitan area is estimated by OECD to have a population of 2.2 million.
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Ukraine
Ukraine ( ; , transliterated: , ), with its area of 603,628 km2, is the second largest country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast respectively.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (, {{Lang-ur|), pronounced , "Northern Province"), often referred to as U.P., is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 190 million people,
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Xinhua News Agency
The Xinhua News Agency (, , , literally "New China News Agency") is the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC. It is the largest news agency in the PRC, ahead of the China News Service. Xinhua is subordinate to the PRC State Council and reports to the Communist Party of China's Publicity and Public Information Departments.
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Where the Hell is Matt?
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- Duration: 3:42
- Published: 20 Jun 2006
- Uploaded: 15 Jan 2012
- Author: mattharding2718
I had a great time making this. Hope you enjoy it. www.wherethehellismatt.com www.STRIDEgum.com
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Smosh - Food Battle 2006
Anthony & Ian fight to the death to prove which of their favorite food is superior. Watch this video in higher quality & download at smosh.com http myspace.com
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JibJab.com - Nuckin' Futs! - The JibJab Year In Review 2006
www.jibjb.com What do Britney Spears, Google and Iran have in common? They all contributed to one heck of a crazy 2006! Watch singing school children recap the past year's events, with a touch of JibJab's twisted humor! View the original version of this video in high-res Want more JibJab? Visit us at: www.jibjab.com Register to get access to new JibJab releases sendables.jibjab.com Read our blog: blog.jibjab.com Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com Become a fan on Facebook: www.facebook.com Add us on MySpace: vids.myspace.com Visit our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com
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Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)
This is a set of clips of Peter Schiff from 2006 and 2007. I added labels and 2008 predictions to the first video. More videos at www.youtube.com
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Best Goals of the World Cup 2006 in Germany
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- Duration: 4:39
- Published: 11 Jul 2006
- Uploaded: 14 Jan 2012
- Author: nightcrawler83
BBC shows the 10 most beautifull goals of the football world cup in germany.
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Italy - 2006 World Cup Highlights
These are the highlights for Italy in the Fifa World Cup 2006, Some nice goals!!! Italy won because they are the best team in the world, including the country, since it's my nation :D Enjoy :D
http://wn.com/Italy__2006_World_Cup_Highlights
Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah - Eurovision final 2006
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 20 May 2006
- Uploaded: 14 Jan 2012
- Author: eddiecurry
Live at the Eurovision final 2006, ripped from BBC1. The blog at www.redpenguin.net isn't up and running any more.
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8/28/2006-Peter Schiff Predicts The US Economic Collapse With Unbelievable Accuracy
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- Duration: 8:15
- Published: 07 Mar 2008
- Uploaded: 14 Jan 2012
- Author: PhilDeCarolis
Visit www.PhilDeCarolis.com tosign up for my free weekly newsletter that includes Economic and Real Estate updates or for more Peter Schiff videos and real estate advice from an experienced Investor Let me help you protect and grow your wealth NOW before it is too late. Contact me right away for a referral to my own personal broker with Euro Pacific Capital that can advise you on the purchase of precious metals (Gold, Silver, etc..), Commodities And/Or Foreign Dividend paying stocks to hedge against rising prices and your loss of hard earned wealth. Join me in preserving your savings so that we can utilize our retained purchasing power to purchase Discounted/Cash Flowing California Real Estate Assets at the bottom of this downturn for pennies on the dollar that will rise in value dramatically during Californias' next cyclical inflationary real estate bull market.
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Red Bull X-Fighters 2006 Highlights - HUGE air!
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- Duration: 1:08
- Published: 24 Mar 2007
- Uploaded: 15 Jan 2012
- Author: redbullusa
Red Bull X-Fighters brings together the world's top FMX riders and the world's most celebrated bull-fighting arenas to create the most intense freestyle motocross event on the planet. Check out all the details for 2008 at www.redbullxfighters.com
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Best beatbox show ever - Roxorloops part 1 - Fmbeat Selection
Part 2 : www.youtube.com Roxorloops show part 1/2 french beatbox championship 2006 - un show de beatbox enormissime French Beatbox Championship 2006 13-14 october 2006 Angers FRANCE see www.roxorloops.com to contact Roxorloops ;)
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Stacy Westfall 2006
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- Duration: 6:49
- Published: 04 Feb 2008
- Uploaded: 14 Jan 2012
- Author: sourpuss59
She dedicated this to her dad who had died 24 days before this competition.
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Emancipator - Lionheart (2006)
www.myspace.com Lionheart from the album: "soon it will be cold enough" youtube.com Emancipator - Anthem (my 2nd video)
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2006 Emmys Opening
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- Duration: 6:33
- Published: 28 Aug 2006
- Uploaded: 15 Jan 2012
- Author: ReclinerMan
This is the greatest award show opening, hands down. Also, I do not own NBC, Fox, ABC or Comedy Central; and they don't own me!
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Emancipator - Anthem (2006)
www.myspace.com Anthem from the Album "Soon it will be cold enough" 2006 New Song "Safe In The Steep Cliffs" (2010): www.youtube.com
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2006 Chicago Marathon - How NOT to end a race!
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- Duration: 2:22
- Published: 22 Oct 2006
- Uploaded: 13 Jan 2012
- Author: derfermark
Robert Cheruiyot wins Chicago Marathon 10/22/06 with a time of 2:07:35 but slips at finish line - OUCH! 10/24/06 Update: CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Marathon winner Robert Cheruiyot left the hospital on Tuesday after spending two nights there with a mild concussion he sustained when he slipped at the finish line. The 28-year-old had sprinted away from fellow Kenyan Daniel Njenga during the final stretch of Sunday's race when he slipped backward and banged his head, causing internal and external bleeding. His momentum carried him across the line, making him the winner in two hours seven minutes 35 seconds. Cheruiyot, this year's Boston Marathon champion, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He had no recollection of what had happened immediately afterward and asked his coach if he had won. But his agent, Federico Rosa, said his client's memory is intact. There were decals with the marathon's logo at the finish line, but Rosa did not blame them for the fall. He suggested after the race and during a news conference on Monday that wet conditions, shoes and even just a lack of balance caused Cheruiyot to slip.
http://wn.com/2006_Chicago_Marathon__How_NOT_to_end_a_race!
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Music video by NWA performing Straight Outta Compton (2006 Digital Remaster).
http://wn.com/NWA__Straight_Outta_Compton
Band Of Horses - The Funeral (2006)
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- Duration: 5:27
- Published: 29 Nov 2009
- Uploaded: 15 Jan 2012
- Author: ElektraMSK
Album: Everything All The Time (2006) Genre: Rock Style: Acoustic, Southern Rock, Indie Rock
http://wn.com/Band_Of_Horses__The_Funeral_2006
BIG AIR 2006 - Danny Way & Andy Macdonald
Danny Way & a bit of Andy Macdonald (mega ramp). Great jumps! The song is: Salta (means jump in spanish) by Tequila
http://wn.com/BIG_AIR_2006__Danny_Way_Andy_Macdonald
The Contract
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- Duration: 96:06
- Published: 28 Aug 2011
- Uploaded: 08 Dec 2011
- Author: LionsgateUKMovies
The only thing standing between an assassin and his target is a father who must protect his son. While on a hiking trip to reconnect with his son, Ray Keene finds himself caught up in a nightmare scenario of paid assassins and ex-military guns for hire, lead by the mysterious and dangerous Frank Cordell. Pursued by Cordell's henchmen, Keene and his son are forced to trek miles across dangerous terrain in order to bring this lethal killer to justice. The clock is ticking, and the contract is almost complete...
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Italy - Germany (04.07.2006)
World Cup semifinal Italy - Germany
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Classic Game Room - SEGA RALLY 2006 for PS2 review
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- Duration: 6:31
- Published: 03 Oct 2010
- Uploaded: 06 Jan 2012
- Author: InecomCompany
Classic Game Room reviews SEGA RALLY 2006 for Japanese Playstation 2 from Sega. This game comes in a limited edition box set with the previously reviewed Sega Rally Championship 1995, also for PS2. Drive a variety of awesome cars in some great looking rally courses in Sega Rally 2006, just don't try to play it on a Western PS2. This CGR review of Sega Rally 2006 has gameplay from the rally driving game Sega Rally 2006 showing Sega Rally 2006 game play on PS2.
http://wn.com/Classic_Game_Room__SEGA_RALLY_2006_for_PS2_review
The Who - Live Ulm, Germany 2006 Love Reign O'er Me
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- Duration: 6:50
- Published: 28 Jul 2006
- Uploaded: 11 Jan 2012
- Author: mercuryman67
Great song, great band!
http://wn.com/The_Who__Live_Ulm,_Germany_2006_Love_Reign_O'er_Me
Baba O'Riley (Live 2006)
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- Duration: 5:22
- Published: 26 Aug 2006
- Uploaded: 11 Jan 2012
- Author: JimMorrison71
The Who play "Baba O'Riley" live at T-In-The-Park in Kinross, Scotland, July 9th, 2006.
http://wn.com/Baba_O'Riley_Live_2006
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2006 (MMVI) was a common year that started on a Sunday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2006th year of the Common Era or Anno Domini designation, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 7th of the 2000s decade.
International Asperger's Year.
Year of Mozart, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
January 4 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, suffers a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage; he is rushed to the hospital in serious condition.
January 5 – A hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform hajj.
January 12 – A stampede during the Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362 pilgrims.
January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.
January 25 – Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encycylical, ''Deus Caritas Est''.
January 27 – Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the world, for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
February 10–February 26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
February 19 – Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: Sixty-five miners die after becoming trapped underground, following an explosion in Nueva Rosita, Mexico.
April 11
The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.
President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.
April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; 9 days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de-facto termination of the deal.
May – Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in ''Nature''.
May 24 – East Timor's Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.
May 27 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia, killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.
June 9 – July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup begins in Germany.
June 18 – The first Kazakh space satellite ''KazSat'' is launched.
June 28 – Operation Summer Rains: Israel launches an offensive against militants in Gaza.
July 9
* Italy wins their fourth FIFA World Cup title.
S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes into a concrete barrier shortly after landing, killing at least 122 people and leaving many injured.
July 10 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff.
July 11 – A series of coordinated bomb attacks strikes several commuter trains in Mumbai, India during the evening rush hour.
July 12 – 2006 Lebanon War: Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel 2 days later.
July 18 – The ''SS Nomadic'', the last floating link to ''Titanic'', returns home to a large reception in Belfast.
August 22
Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.
The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of 7 Millennium Prize Problems; Perelman refuses the medal.
August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery.
November 8 - Mercury transits the sun. It is visible from the Americas, Eastern China, Japan, Australia, and Polynesia.
November 12 – The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
November 15 – Al Jazeera launches its English language news channel, ''Al Jazeera English''.
November 23 – A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kill at least 215 people and injure 257 other people.
November 30 – Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and kills at least 720 people in Albay province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
December 30 – Basque nationalist group ETA detonates a van bomb at Madrid-Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, ending a nine-month ceasefire.
September 6 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, son of Kiko, Princess Akishino and Prince Akishino
January 3 – Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
January 4 – Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1946)
January 6 – Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer, explorer and author (b. 1912)
January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
January 19 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
January 27 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931)
January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
February 1
* Dick Brooks, American auto racer (b. 1942)
* Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
February 3 – Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b.1921)
February 8
* Ron Greenwood, English football manager (b. 1921)
* Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music/film composer (b. 1914)
February 9 – Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
February 10 – J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
February 12
* Peter Benchley, American writer (b. 1940)
* Ken Hart, American composer, journalist, and playwright (b. 1917)
February 13
* Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
* P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (b. 1919)
February 14 – Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
February 15 – Sun Yun-suan, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1913)
February 16 – Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
February 20 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveler (b. 1920)
February 22
* Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
* Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, Singapore politician (b. 1925)
February 23
* Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b. 1920)
* Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
February 24
* Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
* Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
February 25
* Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
* Florian ZaBach, American musician and TV personality (b. 1931)
February 27 – Linda Smith, English comedian (b. 1958)
March 1
* Harry Browne, American Libertarian Presidential candidate (b. 1933)
* Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
* Peter Snow, New Zealand doctor (b. 1935)
March 2 – Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)
March 3 – William Herskovic, Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
March 4
* Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1929)
* John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (b. 1944)
March 6
* Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
* Kirby Puckett, U.S. baseball player (b. 1960)
* King Floyd, American singer (b. 1945)
March 8 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
March 9
* Hanka Bielicka, Polish actress (b. 1915)
* John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
March 11
* Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (b. 1931)
* Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (b. 1941)
March 13
* Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
* Peter Tomarken, American game show host (b. 1942)
March 14 – Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (b. 1929)
March 15 – George Mackey, American mathematician (b. 1916)
March 22 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
March 23 – Cindy Walker, American songwriter (b. 1918)
March 24 – Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
March 25
* Rocio Durcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
* Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
March 26 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
March 27 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
April 2 – Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of soldier Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
April 4 – Denis Donaldson, Irish Republican informer (b. 1950)
April 5 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
April 6 – Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b. 1923)
April 11
* Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
* Les Foote, Australian footballer (b. 1924)
* June Pointer, American singer (b. 1953)
April 12
* Rajkumar, Indian actor (b. 1929)
* William Sloane Coffin, American university chaplain and activist (b. 1924)
April 13 – Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist (b. 1918)
April 15 – Louise Smith, American race car driver (b. 1916)
April 17 – Calum Kennedy, Scottish singer (b. 1928)
April 18 – John Lyall, British football player and manager (b. 1940)
April 19 – Scott Crossfield, American pilot (b. 1921)
April 21 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
April 23
* Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
* Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace (b. 1912)
April 24
* Nasreen Huq, Bangladeshi social worker and human rights activist (b. 1958)
* Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
* Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
* Moshe Teitelbaum, Hungarian-born Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
April 25
* Jane Jacobs, American-born writer and activist (b. 1916)
* Peter Law, British politician (b. 1948)
April 29 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
April 30 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (b. 1934)
May 2 – Louis Rukeyser, American television host (b. 1933)
May 3
* Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
* Pramod Mahajan, Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and strategist (b. 1949)
* Earl Woods, American athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
May 6
* Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1906)
* Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
May 7
* Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
* Steve Bender, German musician (Dschinghis Khan) (b. 1946)
May 8 – Iain Macmillan, British photographer (b. 1938)
May 10 – Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
May 11
* Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932)
* Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
May 12 – Hussein Maziq, Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1918).
May 13
* Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
* Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American R&B; singer (b. 1949)
May 16 – Jorge Porcel, Argentine actor (b. 1936)
May 19 – Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
May 21 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and songwriter (b. 1909)
May 22 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
May 24
* Anderson Mazoka, Zambian politician (b. 1943)
* Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (b. 1930)
May 25
* Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
* Tobías Lasser, Venezuelan botanist (b. 1911)
* Kari S. Tikka, Finnish professor (b. 1944)
May 26 – Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
May 27 – Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1928)
May 29 – Masumi Okada, Japanese actor (b. 1935)
May 30
* Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
* David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
June 1 – Rocio Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
June 6
* Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
* Billy Preston, American artist and musician (b. 1946)
* Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
June 7
* Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (b. 1966)
* John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
June 11 – Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
June 12
* Chakufwa Chihana, Malawi politician (b. 1939)
* György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
* Kenneth Thomson, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
June 13
* Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (b. 1925)
* Hiroyuki Iwaki, Japanese conductor and percussionist (b. 1932)
June 14 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (b. 1930)
June 15 – Raymond Devos, French humorist (b. 1922)
June 18 – Gica Petrescu, Romanian musician (b. 1915)
June 23 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
June 25
* Arif Mardin, Turkish-born music producer (b. 1932)
* Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect and resistance fighter (b. 1918)
June 30
* Mohamed Haneef, Maldivian Politician and former Vice-President of Islamic Democratic Party of Maldives (b. 1946)
* Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
July 1
* Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
* Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
July 3 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
July 5
* Gert Fredriksson, Swedish kayaker (b. 1919)
* Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
July 6 – Kasey Rogers, American actress, author, and biker (b. 1925)
July 7
* Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author, and broadcaster (b. 1914)
* Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (b. 1934)
* Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1946)
* John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
* Elias Hrawi, former President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
July 8
* June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
* Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b. 1945)
July 10 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
July 11
* Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (b. 1943)
* John Spencer, British snooker player (b. 1935)
July 13 – Red Buttons, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
July 16 – Bob Orton, American wrestler (b. 1929)
July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
July 18 – Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (b. 1931)
July 19 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
July 20
* Lim Kim San, Singapore politician (b. 1916)
* Ted Grant, British politician (b. 1913)
July 21
* Ta Mok, Cambodian military leader (b. 1926)
* Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-born actor (b. 1933)
July 22
* José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
* Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Italian-born Brazilian actor and playwright (b.1934)
July 25
* Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (b. 1928)
* Hani Mohsin, Malaysian actor (b. 1965)
July 28 – David Gemmell, British author (b. 1948)
July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
August 3
* Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
* Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945)
August 6 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (b. 1950)
August 9 – James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
August 11 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (b. 1925)
August 13
* Tony Jay, English-born actor (b. 1933)
* Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
August 15
* Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (b. 1931)
* Faas Wilkes, former Dutch football player(b. 1923)
August 16 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
August 19 – Oscar Miguez, Uruguayan football player (b. 1927)
August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
August 21
* Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
* S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (b. 1916)
August 23
* Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician and bandleader (b. 1928)
* Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper of Natascha Kampusch (b. 1962)
August 26
* Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
* Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1926)
August 27
* Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian filmmaker (b. 1922)
* Maria Capovilla, Ecuadorian supercentenarian and last remaining person born during the 1880s (b. 1889)
August 30
* Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)
* Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
* Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet (b. 1910)
September 2
* Charlie Williams, British comedian (b. 1927)
* Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
* Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
September 4
* Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and television personality (b. 1962)
* Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
* Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
September 8 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
September 9
* Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
* William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
September 10 – Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (b. 1918)
September 11
* Joachim Fest, German historian and journalist (b. 1926)
* Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
September 14
* Elizabeth Choy, Singaporean World War II hero (b. 1910)
* Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
September 15
* Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929)
* Abe Saffron, Australian nightclub owner and property developer (b. 1920)
September 16 – Rob Levin, American computer programmer (b. 1955)
September 17
* Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1924)
* Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (b. 1899)
September 19
* Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
* Hugh Kawharu, New Zealand academic and Māori chief (b. 1927)
September 20
* Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
* John W. Peterson, American composer (b. 1921)
September 23
* Malcolm Arnold, English composer (b. 1921)
* Aladár Pege, Hungarian musician (b. 1939)
September 24 – Tetsuro Tamba, Japanese actor (b. 1922)
September 26
* Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
* Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916)
September 29 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
October 6
* Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
* Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
October 8 – Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1975)
October 9 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
October 10 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
October 13 – Mason Andrews, delivered America's first test tube baby; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (b. 1919)
October 14 – Freddy Fender, American singer (b. 1937)
October 16
* Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
* Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (b. 1936)
October 18 – Anna Russell, British-born comedian and music satirist (b. 1911)
October 20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
October 24 – Enolia McMillan, American first female president of the NAACP (b. 1904)
October 25 – Danny Rolling, American serial killer (b. 1954) (executed by lethal injection)
October 28
* Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (b. 1917)
* Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
October 31 – Pieter Willem Botha, former State President of South Africa (b. 1916)
November 1
* Adrienne Shelly, American actress & director (b. 1966)
* William Styron, American writer (b. 1925)
November 2
* Adrien Douady, French mathematician (b. 1935)
* Wally Foreman, Australian sports commentator (b. 1948)
November 3
* Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
* Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1937)
November 4
* Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
* Sergi López Segú, Spanish footballer (b. 1967)
November 5
* Mustafa Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist (b. 1925)
* Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b. 1924)
November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
November 9 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
November 10
* Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
* Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
November 15 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
November 16 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
November 17
* Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
* Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
* Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
November 20
* Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
* Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
November 21
* Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972)
* Hassan Gouled Aptidon, former President of Djibouti (b. 1916)
November 22 – John Allan Cameron, Canadian musician (b. 1938)
November 23
* Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born spy (b. 1962)
* Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
* Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
* Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
November 24
* Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (b. 1933)
* Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
November 25
* Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (b. 1920)
* Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
* Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist and publisher (b. 1916)
November 26 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
November 27 – Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey (b. 1927)
November 28 – Bernard Orchard, British biblical scholar (b. 1912)
December 3 – Craig Hinton, British novelist (b. 1964)
December 4 – Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1987)
December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
December 6 – John Feeney, New Zealand documentary film-director (b. 1922)
December 7
* Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926)
* J. B. Hunt, American trucking magnate (b. 1927)
December 8 – Jose Uribe, Dominican Major League Baseball player (b. 1959)
December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
December 12
* Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
* Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
* Raymond P. Shafer, American politician (b. 1917)
December 13
* Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932)
* "Homesick" James Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1910)
* Federico Crescentini, Sanmarinese football player (b. 1982)
December 14
* Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish record executive (b. 1923)
* Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
December 16 – Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
December 18 – Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911)
December 20
* Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician, novelist and TV-actor (b. 1932)
* Ma Ji, Chinese actor (b. 1934)
December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
December 22 – Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
December 23
* Robert Stafford, American politician (b. 1913)
* Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician (b. 1938)
* Marilyn Waltz, American actress, model, and Playboy Playmate (b. 1931)
December 24
* Braguinha, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
* Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
* Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
* Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian musician, composer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
December 25 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
December 26 – Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
December 29 – Charles Addo Odametey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1937)
December 30
* Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq, executed by hanging (b. 1937)
* Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton, British politician (b. 1922)
Chemistry – Roger D. Kornberg.
Economics – Edmund Phelps.
Literature – Orhan Pamuk.
Peace – Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
Physics – John C. Mather, and George F. Smoot.
Physiology or Medicine – Andrew Z. Fire, and Craig C. Mello.
January 1 – New Year's Day
January 6 – Feast of Epiphany or Día de los Reyes Magos (Day of the Magi Kings) or La Fête des Rois (Feast of the Kings).
January 7 – Christmas in the Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic and other Eastern Christian church calendars.
January 10 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on January 12).
January 11 – Vaikunta Ekadashi is observed by Hindus.
January 14 – Mahayana Buddhist New Year.
January 29 – Lunar New Year
January 31 – Muslim New Year.
February 1 – Imbolc Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
February 9 – Day of Ashurah.
February 13 – Tu Bishvat.
February 28 – Mardi Gras.
March 13 – Jewish holiday of Purim begins at sunset.
March 14 – Sikh New Year.
March 21 – Iranian New Year's Day (Norouz).
March 30 – Hindu New Year.
April 5 – Qingming Festival.
April 11 – Birth anniversary of Muhammad.
April 12 – Pesach or Passover begins at sunset, continues for a week.
April 13
* Theravada Buddhist New Year.
* Punjabi New Year.
April 14
* Good Friday in the Western Church Calendar.
* Sikh Holiday of Vaisakhi.
* Puththaandu Tamil New Year in the Tamil Calendar, observed by people in Tamil Nadu.
April 16 – Easter in the Western Church Calendar.
April 21 – Good Friday in the Eastern Church Calendar!
April 23 – Easter in the Eastern Church Calendar!
May 1 – Beltane Cross-quarter day.
June 1 – Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins at sunset!
August 1 – Lammas Cross-quarter day.
August 2 – Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av begins at sundown; it extends until the night of August 3.
September 22 – Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Continues until nightfall of the 24th.
September 23 – First day of Ramadan.
October 1 – Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Ends at nightfall of the 2nd.
October 21 – Hindu festival of Diwali.
October 23 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Fitr.
October 31 – Samhain Cross-quarter day.
December 15 – Hannukah.
December 21 – Wiccans celebrate the festival of Yule.
December 25 – Christmas in the Western Church Calendar.
December 31 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on January 2, 2007).
2006 was designated the: International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
January 1 – Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.
February
February 3 – An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast. February 4 – The Wowowee stampede at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City, Philippines kills 74 people and leaves 600 injured.
March
March 4 – The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response. March 9 – NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water. March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit. March 28 – A scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III, designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
April
April 5 – A swan with Avian Flu is discovered in Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland (the first case in the United Kingdom). April 10 – A fire at the Brand India Fair, Victoria Park, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, kills at least 100.
May
June
June 3 – Montenegro declares independence after a May 21 referendum. The state union of Serbia and Montenegro is dissolved on June 5, leaving Serbia as the successor state.
July
July 1 – The Qingzang railway launches a trial operation, making Tibet the last province-level entity of China to have a conventional railway. July 6 – The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
August
August 11 – A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council.
September
September 19 – Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand declares a state of emergency in Bangkok as members of the Royal Thai Army stage a coup d'état. The army announces the removal of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power. September 29 – Gol Flight 1907 (Boeing 737-800) collides with a business jet over the Amazon Rainforest, killing all 155 onboard.
October
October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test. October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations. October 29 – Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes shortly after takeoff in Nigeria killing 96 people.
November
November 2 – ''No. 5, 1948'' by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it was sold privately at $140 million. November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
December
December 5 – The military seizes power in Fiji, in a coup d'état led by Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama. December 13 – The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct. December 24 – Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia. December 26 – An oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.
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Nobel Prizes
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| Coordinates | 44°25′57″N26°6′14″N |
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| Name | Matt Harding |
| Birth name | Matthew Harding |
| Birth date | September 27, 1976 |
| Website | http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/ |
| Web alias | Matt |
| Web host service | YouTube |
| Meme | ''Where the Hell is Matt?'' |
| Signature phrase | }} |
He is originally from Westport, Connecticut. He began his game industry career working for a video game specialty store called Cutting Edge Entertainment. Harding later worked as an editor for ''GameWeek Magazine'' in Wilton, Connecticut, and then as a software developer for Activision in Santa Monica, California and then Brisbane, Australia.
Harding claims that a sarcastic joke about the popularity of shoot 'em up games led Pandemic Studios to develop the game ''Destroy All Humans!'', on which he received a conceptual credit. Saying he "didn't want to spend two years of my life writing a game about killing everyone", he quit his job and began traveling, leading to the production of his first video.
On 11 December 2008, Matt Harding sarcastically revealed at the Entertainment Gathering that the videos were a hoax and that he is an actor, not a game designer, and the videos were made using animatronic puppets and extensive video editing. A month later, during the MacWorld convention, Matt revealed the "hoax about the hoax" and joked about the fact many people took it seriously and the outrage it caused. He also made it very clear that the videos he made were indeed 100% real.
Where the Hell is Matt?
Harding was known by his friends for a particular dance, and while video recording each other in Vietnam, his travel companion suggested he add the dance. The videos were uploaded to his website for friends and family to enjoy. Later, Harding edited together 15 dance scenes, all with him center frame, with the background music "Sweet Lullaby" by "Deep Forest". The original Song uses samples from a dying Solomon Islands language which was recorded in 1971 by a French ethnomusicologist at the Solomon Islands near Papua New Guinea. The song, "Rorogwela" was sung by a young woman named Afunakwa. According to the video "Where the Hell is Afunakwa" by Matt Harding, Afunakwa died in 1998.The video was passed around by e-mail and eventually became viral, with his server getting 20,000 or more hits a day as it was discovered, generally country by country due to language barriers, before the launch of major video upload sites.
Harding created a second version of the video in 2006, with additional dancing scenes from subsequent travels, called "Dancing 2006". At the request of Stride, a gum brand, he accepted sponsorship of this video, since he usually travels on a limited budget.
Harding released his third dancing video on June 20, 2008. The video is the product of 14 months of traveling in 42 countries. The background music/song of this video is known as "Praan" composed by Garry Schyman and sung by Palbasha Siddique, with lyrics adapted from the poem "Stream of Life," a part of the Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore.
As of August 2008, Harding is represented by Creative Artists Agency. His videos are viewable on YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo and his own site wherethehellismatt.com. His "Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)" video has been watched over 33,555,501 times on YouTube and Harding's YouTube channel is ranked "#83 - Most Subscribed (All Time) - Directors" as of December 22, 2010.
Major media coverage
Harding's video clips have appeared on television shows including:In November 2006, Harding was invited to lecture at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, about the experience of making the video and subsequent fame. He also was filmed dancing with students from the college.
In 2007, Jawed Karim, one of the founders of YouTube, stated that Harding's video is his favorite video posted to Youtube.
On July 22, 2008 and again on July 25, 2010, NASA featured Harding's third video on their APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) website, titled "Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth", making claim of humans worldwide sharing a common love of dance. The website states that "few people are able to watch the above video without smiling". Harding himself has joked that he is impressed with this, especially since the video has nothing to do with astronomy, nor is a picture.
On November 2008, Matt and the vocalist Palbasha were interviewed by KFAI radio in Minnesota. It is a behind-the-scene story about finding the musician.
Videos
First video
# Beijing, China. # Hanoi, Vietnam. # Delhi, Bengal Jungle, Agra;India. # Moscow, Siberia;Russia. # Bangkok, Thailand. # Prague, Czech Republic. # Angkor Wat, Cambodia # Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Westport;USA # Suhbaatar, Mongolia. # Kilimanjaro Summit, Tanzania. # Monte Alban, Mexico. # Tsavo, Kenya. # Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. # Yangon, Myanmar.
Second video
# Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. # Petra, Jordan. # Machu Picchu, Peru. # Venice, Italy. # Tokyo, Japan. # Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. # Brisbane, Australia. # Luang Prabang, Laos. # Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. # Area 51, Nevada. # Tikal, Guatemala. # Half Moon Caye, Belize. # Sossusvlei, Namibia. # Routeburn Valley, New Zealand. # Monument Valley, Arizona. # South Shetland Islands. # Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. # London, England. # Very Large Array, New Mexico. # Abu Simbel, Egypt. # Easter Island, Chile. # Haute-Picardie, France. # Mutianyu, China. # New York, New York. # Ephesus, Turkey. # Guam. # Mokolodi, Botswana. # Berlin, Germany. # Sydney, Australia. # Dubai, United Arab Emirates. # Rock Islands, Palau. # Mulindi, Rwanda. # Neko Harbour, Antarctica. # Kjeragbolten, Norway. # San Francisco, California. # Seattle, Washington.
Third video
# Mumbai, India # Paro, Bhutan # Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland # Stone Town, Zanzibar # Lancelin, Australia # Lisse, Netherlands # Christmas Island, Australia # Kuwait City, Kuwait # Teotihuacán, Mexico # Seljalandsfoss, Iceland ##(Quick scenes of transition from dancing alone to with others) Dublin, Ireland ## Boston, Massachusetts, United States ## Toronto, Ontario, Canada ## Atomium, Brussels, Belgium ## Praça do Comércio, Lisbon, Portugal ## Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ## San Francisco, California, United States ## Paris, France ## Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ## Washington DC, United States ## Chicago, Illinois # Madrid, Spain # Antseranana, Madagascar # Brisbane, Australia # Dublin, Ireland # Buenos Aires, Argentina # Chakachino, Zambia # Istanbul, Turkey # Wainivilase, Fiji # London, England # Stockholm, Sweden # Auki, Solomon Islands # Sana'a, Yemen # Ala Archa Gorge, Kyrgyzstan # Tagaytay, Philippines # Demilitarized Zone, Korea # Timbuktu, Mali # Warsaw, Poland # Austin, Texas # Tokyo, Japan # Poria, Papua New Guinea # Miami, Florida # Munich, Germany # Tongatapu, Tonga # Chicago, Illinois # Thimphu, Bhutan # Gurgaon, India # Sydney, Australia # Lisbon, Portugal # Seoul, South Korea # Soweto, South Africa # New York, New York. # Tokyo, Japan # Vava'u, Tonga # Cape of Good Hope, South Africa # Panama Canal, Panama # Wadi Rum, Jordan # Lemur Island, Madagascar # Auckland, New Zealand # Batik, Morocco # Amsterdam, Netherlands # Atlanta, Georgia # Mexico City, Mexico # Brussels, Belgium # San Francisco, California # Taipei, Taiwan # Vancouver, British Columbia # Washington DC, United States. # Rio de Janeiro, Brazil # Cologne, Germany # Singapore # Alhambra, California # Tel Aviv, Israel # East Jerusalem, Israel # Paris, France # Montreal, Quebec # Nellis Airspace, Nevada # Los Angeles, California # Sao Paulo, Brazil # Seattle, Washington
Fourth Video - South Africa
In preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Matt Harding created a special video to celebrate the occasion in which he performed the Diski Dance in locations across South Africa. He uploaded the video to YouTube on March 5, 2010. The following locations were shown in the video in the order listed. Some locations were visited several times.# Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton, Johannesburg # The Pinnacle, Mossel Bay # Hout Bay, Cape Town # Table Mountain, Cape Town # Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town # Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit # South African Airways # Boulders Beach, near Cape Town # Soweto Cooling Towers, Soweto. Johannesburg # Robben Island # Soccer City, Soweto, Johannesburg # Table Mountain, Cape Town # Cape of Good Hope # Camp Jabulani, Hoedspruit # Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga # Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton, Johannesburg # Bourke's Luck Potholes, Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga # Soweto Cooling Towers, Soweto. Johannesburg # Hout Bay, Cape Town # Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton, Johannesburg # Mac Mac Pools, near Mac-Mac Falls, Mpumalanga # Lesedi Cultural Village, near Johannesburg # Camp Jabulani, Hoedspruit # Bourke's Luck Potholes, Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga # Lesedi Cultural Village, near Johannesburg # Soccer City, Soweto, Johannesburg # Table Mountain, Cape Town # Johannesburg # Boulders Beach, near Cape Town # The Pinnacle, Mossel Bay # Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton, Johannesburg # Soccer City, Soweto, Johannesburg # South African Airways
Videogame development credits
Harding's development credits include:
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| name | Smosh |
| author | Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla |
| years | 2005-present |
| website | smosh.com }} |
Smosh is a web-based comedy duo consisting of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla. Anthony Padilla first began posting flash movies on Newgrounds in early 2003, under the name Smosh. He was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Soon afterward they began to post videos on YouTube in the autumn of 2005 and became one of the most popular channels on that site, with more than 3 million subscribers as of August 2011. Until 2008, Smosh was the most-subscribed-to-YouTube account.
Four Smosh-related channels exist on YouTube. The base "Smosh" channel, where both Ian and Anthony post their skits and other videos, has new videos every Friday. From "IanH" (used at first for vlogs and other non-scripted videos), the pair upload their side series "Ian is Bored" on Mondays and "Lunchtime with Smosh" on Thursdays, while their associate performer Mari does "Smosh Pit Weekly" videos on Saturday. A third channel, called "AskCharlie", is based on the popular Smosh character Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig. It uploads videos every Wednesday. Their final channel, "AnthonyPadilla", has been inactive since February 2011; it was formerly where Anthony made vlog-like videos on his own.
History
Formation and ''Pokémon Theme Music Video'': 2005–2009
Smosh began when Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla made several videos together, lip syncing to theme songs such as Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. At first, these videos were not intended to be posted online, but after they sent them to their friends, they started a YouTube channel.One of Smosh's earliest videos, "Pokémon Theme Music Video," was released in November 2005. It followed the same style as their other earlier videos, featuring the duo lip-synching the original English theme song for the Pokémon anime. However, the video instantly became much more popular than any of their other videos; over the course of its lifetime, it gained 24.7 million views, becoming the most-viewed video on all of YouTube at that time. It held that title for about six months, but was removed by YouTube after the website received a notice from Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd., claiming copyright infringement.
The success of their ''Pokémon'' video and other videos led Smosh to be featured in the "Person of the Year: You" issue of ''Time Magazine'', published December 13, 2006. It also inspired them to expand their style beyond basic lip-synching videos, and eventually to start creating videos of various genres, such as mini-skits and sketch comedies.
2010 era
In January 2010, Smosh launched the "Smosh Pit" feature, a blog that consists of various pieces of pop-culture trivia. In addition, 2010 saw the channel launch 3 different Smosh-based web series: "Ian is Bored," which is a collection of comedic videos by Ian Hecox; "Ask Charlie" (which is an interactive series where people ask Charlie, from their January 2010 "Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig" video, random questions); and "Lunchtime with Smosh," a Comedy series featuring Smosh getting and eating food from various places.Also in early 2010, Smosh created the "iShut Up App" for Android phones as part of a Google sponsorship; it eventually made its way to the iTunes app store.
In November 2010, Anthony and Ian guest-appeared in the 35 minute film Agents of Secret Stuff, by Nigahiga.
As of August 2011, Smosh is the third most-subscribed channel on YouTube.
Anthony and Ian made a cameo in episode 3 of the popular machinima series Red vs Blue season 9.
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| Coordinates | 44°25′57″N26°6′14″N |
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| name | Peter Schiff |
| school tradition | Austrian School |
| color | firebrick |
| birth date | March 23, 1963 |
| nationality | United States |
| field | Financial Economics |
| religion | Jewish |
| alma mater | U.C. Berkeley (B.B.A.), 1987 |
| influences | Irwin Schiff, Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Murray Rothbard |
| opposed | John Maynard Keynes, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Paul Krugman, Christopher Dodd, Barack Obama, |
| signature | }} |
Peter David Schiff (; born March 23, 1963) is an American businessman, author and financial commentator. Schiff is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut and CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals, LLC, a gold and silver dealer based in New York City.
Schiff frequently appears as a guest on CNBC, Fox News, and Bloomberg Television and is often quoted in major financial publications and is a frequent guest on internet radio as well as the host of the former podcast ''Wall Street Unspun'', which is now broadcast on terrestrial radio and known as ''The Peter Schiff Show''. In 2010 Schiff ran as a candidate in the Republican primary for the United States Senate seat from Connecticut.
Schiff is known for his bearish views on the dollar and dollar denominated assets, while bullish on investment in tangible assets as well as foreign stocks and currencies.
Early life and education
The son of Irwin Schiff, a prominent figure in the United States tax protester movement, Peter Schiff was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. Schiff graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 with a Bachelor's degree in finance and accounting.
Financial career
Schiff began his career as a financial consultant at a Shearson Lehman Brothers brokerage. In 1996 Schiff and a partner acquired a small brokerage firm that had been founded in 1980, reincorporated it in California and renamed it Euro Pacific Capital. The company today has more than 15,000 clients and six offices nationwide, with its headquarters in Westport, Connecticut.According to a 2005 article in ''The Advocate'' of Stamford, Connecticut Schiff relocated the firm to Darien, Connecticut to find brokers "who think like him". The New York Metropolitan Area, Schiff says, has the biggest concentration of brokers in the country, making it easier to recruit employees. The company has offices in Newport Beach, California as well as in Scottsdale, Arizona, Palm Beach, Florida, Los Angeles and New York. Euro Pacific Capital also holds the exclusive rights to broker some Perth Mint gold products in the United States.
Economic forecasting
Peter Schiff specializes in the understanding of the Austrian School, a school of economic thought generally categorized as heterodox (or non-mainstream). Schiff voices strong support for the Austrian School, and says it was first introduced to him by his father, Irwin Schiff..
U.S. bear market
In his 2007 book, ''Crash Proof'', Schiff writes that the current United States economic policies are fundamentally unsound, and predicts that in the future the United States dollar will lose much of its value.Schiff believes that the imbalance between the amount of goods the U.S. consumes and what it produces will eventually lead to problems for the U.S. economy. As a remedy Schiff favors increased personal savings and production which he says will stimulate economic growth. Schiff cites the U.S.'s low personal savings rate as one of the causes of its transformation from the world's largest creditor nation in the 1970s to the largest debtor nation in the year 2000. Schiff attributes the low savings rate to higher inflation and the artificially low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve.
In a 2002 interview with ''Southland Today'', Schiff predicted that the economic downturn triggered by the bursting of the stock market bubble would lead to a bear market likely to last "another 5 to 10 years." In November 2002, US stocks began a bull market uptrend which held steady for at least five years, until reversing course in 2008, when the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P; 500 began a decline to less than half of their peak 2008 values, followed in 2009 by the Dow climbing 61% from its low point over the following year. After interviewing Schiff in 2009, journalist and finance author Eric Tyson, referenced various Schiff predictions during the 2000s and stated that "On all of these counts, Schiff wasn't just wrong but ended up being hugely wrong." Schiff later released a video stating that, "When I gave that interview in 2002, I had no way of knowing how irresponsible the Fed was going to be ... But I recognized that early: back in 2003 and 2004 I changed my forecast ... if you look at what happened to the Dow in terms of gold [and not U.S. dollars], my forecast was extremely accurate."
In an August 2006 interview he said: "The United States economy is like the Titanic and I am here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States." On December 31, 2006 in debate on Fox News, Schiff forecast that "what's going to happen in 2007" is that "real estate prices are going to come crashing back down to Earth".
As part of these exchanges on Fox News and his repeated appearances on financial news network CNBC, Schiff had mentioned factors such as speculators and "the absence of lending standards" which are now seen by many to indeed be contributing factors to the housing crisis which began in 2007. On December 13, 2007 in a Bloomberg interview on the show ''Open Exchange'', Schiff further added that he felt that the crisis would extend to the credit card lending industry. Following this observation, it was soon reported on December 23, 2007 by the Associated Press that "The value of credit card accounts at least 30 days late jumped 26 percent to $17.3 billion in October from a year earlier at 17 large credit card trusts examined by the AP... At the same time, defaults -- when lenders essentially give up hope of ever being repaid and write off the debt -- rose 18 percent to almost $961 million in October, according to filings made by the trusts with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
Since 2007, Schiff has stated many times that if the government doesn't change course there will be hyperinflation in the US. Schiff is one of a minority of economists credited with accurately predicting the financial crisis of 2007–2010 while "nearly all [macroeconomists] failed to foresee the recession despite plenty of warning signs". In his book ''Crash Proof'', he described several aspects of the U.S. economy that would lead to a recession.
Online videos
Schiff's notoriety for financial predictions increased when a You Tube video entitled "Peter Schiff was right" became popular in late 2008 and 2009. The video consists of a compilation of clips of his many appearances on various financial news programs from networks including CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC and Bloomberg, most of which took place from 2005 to 2007. In the segments Schiff explains specifically the fundamental problems he saw with the United States economy at that time. Schiff's warnings of a coming economic collapse earned him the moniker "Dr. Doom."In late 2006, Schiff predicted the housing bubble and resulting subprime mortgage crisis, and in late 2008, he predicted the automotive industry crisis and the crisis in the banking and financial markets.
Investment advice
Despite predictions regarding the housing bubble and automotive industry difficulties coming to fruition, as early as 2009 Schiff was receiving criticism due to the performance of some of his client's accounts in 2008, as well as controversies over the predictions themselves. In January 2009, economic blogger and investment adviser Michael Shedlock reported, "I have talked with many who claim they have invested with Schiff and are down anywhere from 40% to 70% in 2008." Other criticisms followed, including the aforementioned Eric Tyson post as well as an article for the investment news site Seeking Alpha, published on the site two days after Shedlock's blog post. Later that week an article appeared in the ''Wall Street Journal'' reporting that Schiff's broker-dealer firm, Euro Pacific Capital Inc., "advised its clients to bet that the dollar would weaken significantly and that foreign stocks would outpace their U.S. peers" and that instead, the dollar advanced against most currencies, "magnifying the losses from foreign stocks Mr. Schiff steered his investors into."The Director of Communications at Schiff's investment firm responded to the original Shedlock piece by saying, "While it is true, that our accounts have suffered badly in 2008, a fact that we have never disputed or ran from, [Shedlock's] estimates for the size of our typical client losses are exaggerated and unfair." Schiff personally responded to Shedlock's criticism by saying, "to examine the effectiveness of my investment strategy immediately following a major correction by looking only at those accounts who adopted the strategy at the previous peak is unfair and distortive" and called Shedlock's blog entry "nothing more than an overt advertisement (and a highly deceptive one at that) to use my popularity to advance his career," adding that losses were felt mostly by recent clients and not by others.
Schiff responded similarly to criticisms made by Wade Slome of Sidoxia Capital Management, LLC. in a September 2009 blog entry entitled, "The Emperor Schiff Has No Clothes." Schiff stated not only were the losses suffered by his clients in 2008 highly exaggerated, but also that most of those losses have already been recouped, stating that many who where down then are now up, and most long-term clients were never down at all, but merely temporarily lost some of the profits they had earned over the years.
The January 2009 ''Wall Street Journal'' article discussed the value of Schiff's predictions, and stated how deficiencies "made mincemeat of investors who took his advice in 2008." In an interview the following week Schiff likened himself to billionaire investor Warren Buffett saying they were both "buy and hold" long-term investors. Contrasting his negative press he compared claims about accounts managed under Schiff's firm to the stock market value of Warren Buffett's company, saying: "His approach is you buy stocks and you never sell them—you hope to never sell them—and Berkshire Hathaway is down 40% in the last thirteen months; I don't see the Wall Street Journal saying 'Warren Buffett made mincemeat out of his clients.'" The ''Wall Street Journal'' also published a letter written by Schiff in response to his critics saying: "My central investing premise, a weakening dollar and safety in gold, commodities and foreign stocks, didn't materialize in 2008. But all the ingredients were (and remain) present for those movements to occur. Over the past year, market reactions that I didn't foresee—massive global deleveraging, a knee-jerk 'flight to quality' into U.S. Treasuries and a sharp counter trend rally in the U.S. dollar—have kept the scenario from playing out."
In a November 2009 videoblog, Schiff said that five stocks he picked for ''Fortune Magazine'' in January 2009 had gained a total of 360%.
In a March 2009 speech Schiff said that it would be impossible for the U.S. debt to China to be repaid unless the U.S. dollar's value is substantially diluted through inflation.
In September 2009 Schiff said that "I would not be surprised to see [gold] at $5,000 over the next several years" and that the 2009 stock market rally was a "bear market rally".
Political career
Schiff was an economic adviser to Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign. In support of Paul's economic revitalization plan, he said: "We need a plan that stimulates savings and production, not more of the reckless borrowing and consumption that got us into this mess in the first place. Ron Paul's plan is the only one that amounts to a step in the right direction. If you want meaningful change—for the better that is—Ron Paul is the only candidate capable of delivering it."In 2008, Schiff also endorsed Murray Sabrin for the U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey.
In an interview in February 2009, Schiff's position was summarized as a nonpartisan critique of American policymakers, comparing former presidents George W. Bush to Herbert Hoover and President Barack Obama to former president Franklin D. Roosevelt, with neither of the more recent incumbents comparing favorably to the earlier ones.
Schiff supports the reduction of government economic regulation, and is concerned that President Obama's administration may increase such regulation.
Schiff says that the current economic crisis provides an opportunity to transition from borrowing and spending, to saving and producing. Schiff is critical of the U.S. government's efforts to "ease the pain" with economic stimulus packages and bailouts. According to Schiff, the U.S. government's approach of replacing "legitimate savings with a printing press" could result in hyperinflation.
2010 U.S. Senate campaign
In December 2008, Connecticut citizens created a website encouraging Schiff to campaign against the incumbent Senator Christopher Dodd. Approximately 5,000 people made campaign contributions using the web site. On February 21, 2009, a moneybomb raised over $20,000 for Schiff's campaign. In a May 2009 video blog, Schiff said that he was seriously considering a run for the senate and when questioned by a ''Washington Post'' reporter, he said the chance of him entering politics was "better than 50-50". In June 2009 Schiff commissioned a poll of likely voters which indicated that he trailed Dodd in popularity by four percentage points. On July 9, 2009, Schiff launched an exploratory committee and an official campaign website. He began accepting donations in an attempt to see if "people who really believe in freedom, liberty, sound money and the constitution are prepared to support that with an actual political contribution or to volunteer their services and work on this campaign." He received over 10,000 donations and many e-mails from around the world.
After giving some hints on ''The Daily Show'' Schiff officially announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination on September 17, 2009, during the MSNBC ''Morning Joe'' show. By October 2009 Schiff had received more than 10,000 telephone calls and letters and raised over $1,960,000 (USD) in campaign contributions.
At the May 2010 Republican convention, Linda McMahon received the most delegate votes but not enough to prevent an August primary election. U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons received more than the required 15 percent of the total votes necessary to force the primary. Schiff then collected the signatures necessary to earn a position on the August 2010 GOP primary ballot, submitting at least 400 signatures over the state requirement.
In July 2010, Schiff's campaign received endorsements from Steve Forbes and Ron Paul.
In the Republican primary, held on August 10, 2010, Schiff lost the nomination to Linda McMahon.
The results were:
Ultimately, the election was won by the Democratic Party primary winner, Richard Blumenthal.
Recognition
In 2011 Peter Schiff was listed as one of the Who's Who of Wall Street
Books
Peter Schiff is the author of five books published by John Wiley & Sons. His book, ''Crash Proof 2.0'', appeared on both the ''New York Times'' and ''Wall Street Journal'' bestseller lists.
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Stacy Westfall is a professional horse trainer who specializes in reining. She was the first woman to compete in, and to win the "Road to the Horse" competition.
1997 Graduate of University of Findlay
2003 NRHA Futurity Freestyle Champion (Bridleless)
2005 All American Quarter Horse Congress Freestyle Futurity Champion
2005 NRHA Futurity Freestyle Champion
2006 Road to the Horse colt Starting Champion
2006 All American Quarter Horse Congress Freestyle Champion
2006 Named to The University of Findlay’s Western Equestrian Wall of Fame
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In 2006 she won the Quarter Horse Congress Free Style Reining while riding the black mare Whizards Baby Doll both bridleless and bareback. When a video of that ride was posted on her website in February 2008 it went 'viral' and came to the attention of television talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. DeGeneres interviewed Westfall on her program on March 14, 2008.
Westfall's other accomplishments include:
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Western horse trainers
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2006 Chicago Marathon - How NOT to end a race!
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2006 Chicago Marathon - How NOT to end a race!
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