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David Blaine (born David Blaine White; April 4, 1973) is an American magician, illusionist and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has set and broken several world records. Blaine’s first television special, Street Magic, has been called "the best TV magic special ever done and the biggest breakthrough in our lifetime". Blaine revolutionized the way magic is shown on television, by focusing on spectator reactions. His idea was to turn the camera around on the people watching instead of the performer, to make the audience watch the audience. The New York Times noted that "he's taken a craft that's been around for hundreds of years and done something unique and fresh with it." According to the New York Daily News, "Blaine can lay claim to his own brand of wizardry. The magic he offers operates on an uncommonly personal level."
Blaine was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Patrice Maureen White (1946–1995), a school teacher, and William Perez, a veteran of the Vietnam War. His father was of half Puerto Rican and half Italian descent, and his mother was of Russian Jewish ancestry. When Blaine was four years old, he saw a magician performing magic in the subway. This triggered a lifelong interest for him. He was raised by his single mother and attended many schools in Brooklyn. When he was 10 years old, his mother married John Bukalo and they moved to Little Falls, New Jersey, where he attended Passaic Valley Regional High School. When Blaine was 17 years old, he moved to Manhattan, New York.
LeBron Raymone James (/ləˈbrɒn/; born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has started at the small forward and power forward positions. James has won two NBA championships (2012, 2013), four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013), two NBA Finals MVP Awards (2012, 2013), two Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012), an NBA scoring title (2008), and the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (2004). He has also been selected to 12 NBA All-Star teams, 11 All-NBA teams, and six All-Defensive teams, and is the Cavaliers' all-time leading scorer.
James played high school basketball at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, where he was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar. After graduating, he was selected with the first overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft by the Cavaliers. James led Cleveland to the franchise's first Finals appearance in 2007, losing to the San Antonio Spurs. In 2010, he left the Cavaliers for the Miami Heat in a highly publicized ESPN special titled The Decision. James played four seasons for the Heat, reaching the Finals all four years and winning back-to-back championships in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, he led Miami on a 27-game winning streak, the third longest in league history. Following his final season with the Heat, James opted out of his contract and re-joined the Cavaliers. Behind his leadership, Cleveland advanced to the Finals before losing to the Golden State Warriors.
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the 2004 biographical film Ray. The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the action film Collateral.
Other prominent acting roles include the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and William Stacks in the 2014 version of Annie. Foxx also starred in the 1990-1994 sketch comedy show In Living Color and his own television show from 1996 to 2001, the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he played Jamie King Jr.
Foxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums which have charted highly on the US Billboard 200: Unpredictable (2005), which topped the chart, Intuition (2008), Best Night of My Life (2010), and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015).
Blaine Mitchell rocks the house with his performance of "Hold Back the River." » Get The Voice Official App: http://bit.ly/TheVoiceOfficialApp » Subscribe for More: http://bit.ly/TheVoiceSub » The Voice Returns Monday September 19 8/7c on NBC! » Get Blaine's Performance on iTunes: http://apple.co/1O3wSmP » Watch Full Episodes Free: http://bit.ly/TheVoiceFullEpisodes » Check Out NBC's Upcoming Fall Shows: http://bit.ly/NBCNewFallShows THE VOICE ON SOCIAL: Like The Voice: http://Facebook.com/NBCTheVoice Follow The Voice: https://Twitter.com/NBCTheVoice The Voice Tumblr: http://nbcTheVoice.Tumblr.com/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/+TheVoice/ The Voice Pinterest: http://Pinterest.com/nbcTheVoice/ As part of NBC's Fall shows in 2015, NBC’s The Voice follows the strongest vocalists from acr...
Would Be President #14, James G. Blaine (1830-1893) I’m going to tell you the tale Of a man who thought he’d won the Presidency Had dirt on his opponent; didn’t think he could fail But honesty proved the best policy Edited the Kennebec Journal; Helped found the Republican Party Served in the state legislature and the U.S. House Served as its speaker; Supported Radical Reconstruction And the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson Dubbed the Plumed Knight; But implicated in graft Elected to the Senate; Served as Secretary of State two times Grover Cleveland's candid admission to an exposed premarital affair which resulted in a bastard child caught the fancy of the electorate Ma, Ma, Where’s my Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha Ha Ha Blaine, Blaine James G. Blaine Continental liar From the s...
David Blaine performs magic for Jamie Foxx. From ABC's "David Blaine: Real or Magic."
My next video will be a reading from James G. Blaines account of the speeches and statements of hostility of the British Parliament during the US Civil War from his book "Twenty Years of Congress". It's a side of the international aspect of the war that is rarely if ever brought up in the history books.
C-SPAN continues its series "The Contenders" LIVE on Friday, September 16 at 8:00 p.m. ET with James G. Blaine. In this clip, Presidential Historian Richard Norton Smith, Goucher College History Professor Jean Baker and Washington Editor of Real Clear Politics Carl Cannon discuss Blaine. More information on the series can be found here: http://thecontenders.c-span.org
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