Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Tom Hanks - American actor, writer, producer and director

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Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, writer, producer and director. Hanks work in television and family friendly comedies, gaining broad notice in 1988's Big, before achieve success as a dramatic actor in some notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander James A. Lovell in Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in save Private Ryan, Joe Fox in You have Got Mail and Chuck Noland in Cast Away. Hanks won consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards, in 1993 for Philadelphia and in 1994 for Forrest Gump. U.S. domestic box office total for his films beat $3.9 billion. He is the father of actor Colin Hanks.

Hanks have made donations to several Democratic politicians and have been open about his sustain for same sex marriage, environmental causes and alternative fuels. A supporter of NASA's manned space program, Hanks said that he initially wanted to be an astronaut but "didn't have the math." Hanks is a member of the National Space Society, portion on the Board of Governors of the nonprofit educational space advocacy association founded by Dr. Wernher Von Braun and was the maker of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon about the Apollo program to send astronauts to the moon.

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Born Name

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks

Date of Birth

July 9, 1956

Place of Birth

Concord, California, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, producer, director,

voice over artist, speaker, writer

Spouse

Susan Jane Dillingham,

Rita Wilson

Friday, October 8, 2010

Michelle Obama - Lawyer and Most Powerful Woman in the world 2010

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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the forty fourth and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama concentrate Princeton University and Harvard Law School before returning to Chicago and to work at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her prospect husband. Afterward, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center. Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped movement for her husband's presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

In 1993, she became Executive Director for the Chicago office of community Allies, a nonprofit organization cheering young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies. She worked there almost four years and set fundraising records for the organization that still stood 12 years after she left. She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball trainer at Oregon State University. As the wife of a Senator, and later the First Lady, she has develop into a fashion icon and role model for women, and a notable advocate for poverty awareness and healthy eating.

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Birth name

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson

Date of Birth

January 17, 1964

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois

Nationality

American

Political party

Democratic

Spouse(s)

Barack Obama

Profession

Lawyer

Religion

Protestant Christian

Monday, July 26, 2010

Andrew Jackson

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Born

March 15, 1767


Birth Place

Waxhaws area


Nationality

American


Political party

Democratic-Republican and


Democratic


Spouse(s)

Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson


Occupation

Prosecutor, Judge, Farmer, Soldier


Religion

Presbyterian


Died

June 8, 1845


Death Place

Nashville, Tennessee




Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States. He was military governor of pre-admission Florida, commander of the American services at the Battle of New Orleans, and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. His legacy is now seen as mixed, as a guard of popular democracy and individual liberty for American citizens, checkered by his support for slavery and Indian removal. Famous for his toughness, he was nicknamed "Old Hickory". As he based his career in developing Tennessee, Jackson was the first president primarily related with the American frontier.

Zachary Taylor

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Born

November 24, 1784


Birth Place

Barboursville, Virginia


Nationality

American


Political party

Whig


Spouse(s)

Margaret Smith Taylor


Occupation

Soldier


Religion

Episcopal


Died

July 9, 1850


Death Place

Washington, D.C.



Zachary Taylor was one of the 12th Presidents of the United States and an American military leader. He was the last President to hold slaves while in office, and the last Whig to win a presidential election. He achieved celebrity leading American troops to victory in the Battle of Palo Alto and the Battle of Monterrey during the Mexican American War. As president, Taylor angered several Southerners by taking a sensible stance on the issue of slavery. Taylor is thought to have died of gastroenteritis just 16 months into his term, the third shortest term of any President. Taylor was succeeded by his Vice President, Millard Fillmore.