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Pam Martinez
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Pamela Rose Martinez, better known by her ring name Bayley, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand. She began her career on the independent circuit as Davina Rose from 2008 to 2012 before signing with WWE and joining NXT, where she captured the NXT Women’s Championship in 2015 and earned Female Competitor of the Year and Match of the Year honors.
Bayley debuted on WWE’s main roster in 2016 and went on to win the Raw Women’s, SmackDown Women’s, and Women’s Tag Team Championships, becoming the first women’s Triple Crown Champion and Grand Slam winner. She also holds the record for the longest SmackDown Women’s Championship reign at 380 days, won the 2019 Money in the Bank ladder match, and became the first woman to defend a WWE title in Saudi Arabia.
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Constance Debré
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Constance Debré, born in 1972, is a French lawyer and novelist.
Constance Debré's parents were journalist François Debré (1942–2020) and former model Maylis Ybarnégaray (1942–1988); the judge and politician Jean-Louis Debré is her uncle. Her grandparents included Michel Debré (1912–1996), former Prime Minister under General de Gaulle, and Jean Ybarnégaray (1883–1956), a minister of the Vichy regime and resistance fighter.
She was 16 when her mother died. She studied at Lycée Henri-IV, then law at Panthéon-Assas University. She is also a graduate of class 99 (E99) of the ESSEC Business School. She married in 1993 and had a son in 2008.
Working as a defence lawyer, she accompanied her father in 2011 when he was charged in an inquiry into fictitious jobs at the town hall of Paris. In 2013, she was elected second secretary of the Conference of Lawyers of the Paris Bar.
In 2015, she left her husband and her job to live with a woman and pursue a full-time career as a writer. In 2018, she won the Prix La Coupole for her autobiographical novel Play Boy, which describes the aftermath of this fateful decision: the custody battle over her son, and its associated pressures to conform to a "bourgeois" family model with a same-sex partner. It formed the first book in a trilogy.
Her 2020 novel Love Me Tender was adapted by filmmaker Anna Cazenave Cambet into the 2025 film Love Me Tender.
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Norma Jordan
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Norma Jordan is an American born showgirl, actress and singer, who made a name for herself in Italian showbiz from late 1960s to mid 1980s. An article on La Stampa, dated November 11 1977, describes her as a "28 Detroit-born black girl [neretta], arrived in Italy in 1971" but according to The Pittsburgh Courier (5.5.1973) she was native of Norfolk, VA. Norma was already known in Italy in late 1960s: in 1969 was released Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western "Il prezzo del potere" (The Price of Power, 1969), also starring Ray Saunders and introducing Norma as supporting actress and singer (her song was called "Catch a Star from the Sky" and included in the soundtrack of the film). In 1971 she was involved as a witness in a crime case, the double murder of a young black American actress (Tiffany Hoyveld, former roommate of Norma) and of her Italian boyfriend Giuliano Carabei, that took place between 15 and 16 December 1971 on Marignano lake, near Rome.
Norma continued to have roles in Italian films and TV series until late 1970s, among which "Natale in casa d'appuntamento" (Holiday Hookers, 1976) and "La ragazza dalla pelle di corallo" (1976), filmed in Santo Domingo and released on the strength of successful exotic erotic movies starring Zeudi Araya. She featured also as showgirl, host or guest, in TV shows "Un secondo d'amore" (1974), "L'amico della notte" (1977), "Settimo anno" (1978), "Tilt" (1979), "Hello Goggi" (1981), "Maurizio Costanzo Show" (1983), "Il cappello sulle ventitré" (1983). In the same years she modeled for men's magazines, as "Playmen" cover model in issue 3, 1977, appearing also in the Italian edition of "Playboy" (June 1975, February 1978). In late 1970s Norma was launched also as a disco music singer, with the albums "Feel Me" (Ciao, 1979) - featuring the hit single "Disco Beat", and "No Obligations" (Ciao, 1980), produced by Thor Baldursson. After 1983 her name dropped off the chronicles.
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Henri Alleg
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Harry Salem, known as Henri Alleg, born July 20, 1921 in London and died July 17, 2013 in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, was a French journalist, member of the French Communist Party (PCF), and former director of Alger Républicain. He is notably the author of "La Question," a book denouncing torture during the Algerian War.
Born in London to Russo-Polish Jewish parents, Henri Alleg never fully embraced his Jewish identity due to his views on Israel as an agent of racist colonialism. Alleg spent part of his childhood in Paris where, during the Spanish Civil War, he encountered an increasingly politicized school environment with Italian refugees who opposed Mussolini's arrival in France along with German Jews.
Alleg left for Algeria in 1939 and, at the age of 18, became closely associated with the Algerian Communist Party. In 1946, he married Gilberte Serfaty, who, like him, would become an ardent communist activist. In 1951, he became editor of the daily newspaper Alger Républicain. He went underground in 1955, when the newspaper Alger Républicain was banned. Boualem Khalfa, the first Muslim to head a major daily newspaper, had left the previous year to join the Algerian Communist Party press.
Henri Alleg, however, continued to send articles to France, some of which were published by L'Humanité. He was arrested on June 12, 1957, by paratroopers of the 10th DP5, at the home of his friend Maurice Audin, a young mathematics assistant and fellow Algerian Communist Party activist, who had been arrested the day before and tortured to death. He was held captive for a month in El-Biar, where he was tortured in several sessions. He reportedly stood his ground against his torturers, primarily Lieutenants André Charbonnier and Philippe Erulin under the command of Captain Marcel Devis, declaring: "I'm waiting for you: I'm not afraid of you." He was then transferred to the Lodi camp (Médéa Province), then to Barberousse, the harsh civilian prison in Algiers. Transferred to France, he was imprisoned in Rennes prison. Taking advantage of a stay in a hospital, he escaped. With the help of communist activists, he reached Czechoslovakia, thanks in particular to Alfred Locussol.
He returned to France after the Evian Accords, then to Algeria, where he participated in the revival of the newspaper Alger Républicain. "Persona non grata" in Algeria following Houari Boumédiène's coup d'état, he returned to France in 1965. He resumed his writing between 1966 and 1980 for the daily newspaper L'Humanité, where he became secretary-general. He settled in Palaiseau, where he remained until the end of his life. In 2005, he co-signed a letter to the President of the Republic, asking the French government to recognize the abandonment of the Harkis in 1962.
Henri Alleg died on July 17, 2013. During his funeral at Père Lachaise Cemetery on July 29, 2013, in the presence of representatives of the French and Algerian governments, the Algerian President recalled in a message read on his behalf that the book "The Question" is "one of the major texts which, through their universal impact and the awareness they have raised throughout the world, have undeniably contributed to serving the noble cause of human rights in general." Henri Alleg is buried in the Palaiseau Cemetery.
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Anthony Joshua
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Anthony Joshua, MBE, is a British professional boxer. A unified world heavyweight champion, he gained the IBF title in 2016, and the WBA (Super) and IBO titles in April 2017. At regional level he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016. As an amateur competing in the super-heavyweight division, Joshua represented England at the 2011 World Championships, winning a silver medal; he also represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, winning gold. In 2014, a year after turning professional, The Ring magazine named him their Prospect of the Year.
Joshua is the second British boxer, after James DeGale, to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as being the first British heavyweight to do so. He is also the second boxer, after Joe Frazier, to win a world heavyweight title whilst still reigning as Olympic champion at the top weight.
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Ulises Larramendi
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I was born in Cuba in 1963. My family migrated to Spain in ‘74 and eventually to the United States in '77, where we settled in Houston, and have considered Texas our home ever since. God introduced me to my wife, Maria, 27 years ago, and blessed us with three boys who are now in college, and a daughter thru adoption.
I developed an interest in acting at the University of Houston early in my college career. The next few years brought many roles my way, and I realize then how much I enjoyed performing on stage. I have made a living in the restaurant business, doing every job from dishwasher while in High School, to Director of Operations for a national steakhouse, and in 2006 my wife and I opened our own concept, although I never stopped looking for opportunities to be in front of an audience. My recent project, a film called We Are Stronger (www.strongermovie.com), has brought me to this point in my life, where I believe I am called to use my gifts to honor and glorify God. I have always had a heart for mission work, and have traveled abroad a few times to serve...but I can't imagine a more powerful way to impact people's lives, in near and far away places, with His message of grace and hope, than with my performances on stage or screen. I suppose you can sum it up like this...God is not finished with me yet...
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Amanda Billing
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Amanda Billing (born 12 April 1976 in New Zealand) is a New Zealand actress best known for her role as Doctor Sarah Potts on New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.
Billing grew up in Masterton, and spent her university years in Christchurch. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with 1st Class Honours in Geography from the University of Canterbury, she trained at the Christchurch College of Education and became a high school teacher.
Billing was involved in drama throughout her teaching years and has acted in a few amateur stage productions including Cloud Nine and The Country Wife. She has worked at several schools throughout Auckland teaching Geography, English and Social Studies, most recently at Rangitoto College.
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Stephanie Sheh
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Stephanie Sheh is an American voice actress, ADR director, writer and producer. Born on April 10, 1977 in Kalamazoo, Michigan and raised in California, Sheh first gained interest in voice acting while attending high school, and upon graduating college would land her first major roles as Silky in Tenshi ni narumon (1999) and Mamimi Samejima in FLCL (2000). This eventually led to her landing more roles in anime series such as Hinuta Hyuuga in the Naruto franchise, Orihime Inoue in Bleach (2004), the title character from Eureka Seven (2005), Akira Kogami in Lucky Star (2007), and Yui Hirasawa in K-On! (2009). Sheh has also done work for numerous characters in video games, and in addition to reprising her anime roles in various games based on their respective series, she also voiced Tharja in Fire Emblem: Awakening (2012) and other installments in the Fire Emblem franchise and motion capture work as Cereza in Bayonetta (2009). Among her other roles include Usagi Tsukino in Viz Media's red of the Sailor Moon franchise, Yui in the Sword Art Online franchise, Lotte Yanson in Little Witch Academia (2017), and Nui Harime in KILL la KILL (2013).
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة, in Berber: Ɛebdelɛaziz Butefliqa), born March 2, 1937 in Oujda (Morocco) and died September 17, 2021 in Zéralda (Algeria), is an Algerian statesman, President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria from April 27, 1999 to April 2, 2019.
He was engaged after the injunction to students to join the National Liberation Army (ALN) in Morocco in May 1956 during the Algerian War. A member of the Oujda clan, he became friends with Houari Boumédiène, under whose leadership he quickly progressed in the administrative apparatus of the "border army".
Elected as a member of parliament for Tlemcen in 1962, he was Minister of Youth, Sports and Tourism in the first Ahmed Ben Bella government, from 1962 to 1963. He then served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1963 to 1979, in the three Ahmed Ben Bella governments — whose fall he contributed to by participating in the 1965 coup d'état — and the four Houari Boumédiène governments.
After Boumédiène's death, he was Minister Counselor to the President of the Republic from 1979 to 1980. Accused of extortion, he was forced into exile from 1981 to 1987. During the civil war of the 1990s, he was more moderate than President Liamine Zéroual.
An independent candidate in the 1999 presidential election, Abdelaziz Bouteflika controversially won the first round, with 73.8% of the vote, after all the candidates withdrew, although their names were not removed from the ballot papers.
The beginning of his presidency was marked by the end of the civil war. He was re-elected in the first round of the 2004 presidential elections (85% of the vote), 2009 (90.2%) and 2014 (81.5%). He is thus the Algerian head of state who has remained in office the longest. He was also Minister of Defense from 2002 and Honorary President of the National Liberation Front (FLN) from 2005.
After suffering a serious stroke in 2013, his health deteriorated: his mobility was reduced and he made only rare appearances. His ability to govern the country was regularly questioned and his entourage accused of exerting considerable influence, in particular his brother Said Bouteflika, while corruption scandals erupted.
As the 2019 presidential election approached, the regime found itself at an impasse in appointing a suitable successor, which prompted the FLN leaders to consider postponing the vote and keeping Bouteflika in power during this transitional period. These circumstances were conducive to the birth of major demonstrations ("Hirak"), which led to the decision of the head of state to renounce running for a fifth term and to leave the El Mouradia palace, twenty years after his accession to the presidency.
Having retired from public life, Abdelaziz Bouteflika died at the age of 84, two years after his resignation from the presidency of Algeria.
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Valeria Bertuccelli
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Valeria Bertuccelli (born in 1970) in is an Argentine film and television actress.
Born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province, she began her career in experimental theatre, and later worked in the San Martín and Cervantes theatres. She was first cast in the cinema of Argentina by director Mariano Galperin, and received a Silver Condor Award for her role in Daniel Barone's Alma mía (2000). She won another Silver Condor for her leading role in Diego Lerman's Mientras tanto, in 2007.
Her husband, Vicentico, is the lead vocalist of the Argentine rock group Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
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