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Mel Bay (February 25, 1913 – May 14, 1997) was a musician best known for his series of music education books. His Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords remains a bestseller.

Melbourne E. Bay was born on February 25, 1913 in the little Ozark Mountain town of Bunker, Missouri. He bought a Sears Roebuck guitar at the age of 13 and several months later played his first “gig.” Bunker didn't have a guitar teacher so Bay watched the few guitarists he knew and copied their fingering on the fret board, teaching himself chords. Once he felt he knew the rudiments of the guitar, he started experimenting with other instruments, including tenor banjo, mandolin, Hawaiian guitar and ukulele.

Bay played in front of an audience every chance he got, including a stint with a snake oil salesman in and around his hometown. The man hired Bay to play the banjo while sitting in the salesman's car. Once a crowd gathered to listen, Bay would stop playing, and the salesman would pitch his cure-all.

Bay knew that to make it as a professional musician he'd have to be in a large city. So he moved to St. Louis in the early 1930s to find his audience. He played with numerous local and traveling bands. In addition, he landed staff guitar jobs on several radio stations. Mel fronted his own trio (piano, bass, guitar) and played steadily for 25 years.

Roberto Micheletti Baín (born 13 August 1943) is a former interim de facto president of Honduras who served as a result of the 2009 coup d'état. The Honduran military was ordered by the Supreme Court to forcefully detain President Manuel Zelaya once the Court stated he was violating the Honduran constitution;^{[citation needed]} Zelaya was exiled rather than arrested. Micheletti, constitutionally next in line for the presidency, was sworn in as president by the National Congress a few hours after Zelaya was sent into exile by the Honduran military. He wasn't acknowledged as de jure president by any government or international organization. Before serving as President, Micheletti was the President of Honduras' National Congress. A deputy in Congress since 1982, Micheletti is a member of the Liberal Party of Honduras.

Born in El Progreso, Yoro Department, Micheletti was the eighth of nine siblings (6 boys, 3 girls). Micheletti's father was Umberto Micheletti, who immigrated from the Bergamo province of Lombardy, Italy. His mother was Donatella Bain Moya, also born in El Progreso.

Ricardo Alvarez is a character on the HBO drama Oz, played by Tomas Milian. He is a Latino prison inmate.

Prisoner 43A515. Convicted March 3, 1943 - Armed robbery. Sentence: 20 years. Convicted again June 6, 1961 - Murder in the first degree. Sentence: Life imprisonment in solitary confinement.

The grandfather of inmate Miguel Alvarez and the father of inmate Eduardo Alvarez, he is serving life imprisonment in solitary confinement for murdering a Haitian inmate who cut out Eduardo's tongue. He dies due to Alzheimer's disease at the end of Season 1.

Ricardo appears at the request of Father Ray Mukada to discuss the birth of new inmate Miguel Alvarez's son. Miguel is Ricardo's grandson, whom he has never met, and has no intention of taking responsibility for the baby that is being born. Mukada wants to help end the cycle of the Alvarez family incarcerations as three generations are all serving time at the Oswald State Correctional Facility. When discussing the issues pertaining to mistakes in fathering, Mukada is convinced that Ricardo does feel a sense of responsibility to help end the negative cycle when he finds out why Ricardo is serving time in solitary.