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Alain Dalotel
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Alain Dalotel, born on February 24, 1943, in Suresnes, France, and died on May 29, 2020, in Bagnolet, France, at the age of 77, was a French historian specializing in the Paris Commune of 1871. He published numerous books and articles between 1978 and 2006 before ceasing his activities following a stroke.
Alain Dalotel led an atypical career as an employee of a pension fund while simultaneously developing an independent academic path, marked by his involvement in the social struggles of the post-1968 era. He was one of the first non-baccalaureate-holding working students at the University of Vincennes, where he prepared a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Jacques Rougerie entitled "Outline of a History of the Democratic and Social Republic in Popincourt: 1870-1871." He rejected a traditional academic career to pursue engaged research on the popular figures of the Commune, such as Ranvier, Avrial, Amouroux, and Raoul Rigault. A working-class activist with revolutionary ideals, he contributed to journals like Gavroche, the Bulletin des Amis de la Commune de Paris, and the Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle, while also participating in conferences on Benoît Malon.
His work emphasized the social origins of the Commune, the barricades, the Communards' prisons, and revolutionary women, such as André Léo, whom he portrayed as a contemporary figure rejecting sectarian indoctrination. He highlighted historiographical innovation, for example, by placing the event in its pre-1871 context, and championed "grassroots" heroes to inspire contemporary struggles.
In the mid-2000s, a severe stroke forced him to cease his activities, leading to a gradual withdrawal. He died on May 29, 2020 in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, at the age of 77. His death was announced in several tributes and bulletins from historical associations which portrayed him as a committed man, generous with advice and discussions.
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Ilham Namig Kamal
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Ilham Ahmadov was born on 9 January 1949 in Baku. In 1966 he joined the Faculty of Drama and Cinema of the Azerbaijan State Theater Institute named after Mirzaaga Aliyev.[citation needed] Adil Isgandarov and Rza Tahmasib were his teachers. His first role was "Jorj Danden" of Jan Batist Molier when he was a student. He was then accepted to the troupe of university on December 16, 1968. Ilham Ahmadov played "Mirza Javad", "Schwester", "Lomov", "Molla Sabzali" and other roles in troupe.
He worked in Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators from 25 November 1971 to 2 February 1972. From 3 February he worked in Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theatre. On 20 March 1989 Ilham Ahmadov joined the Youth Theater organized by a talented young director Huseynaga Atakishiyev. Since 26 January 1993 the collective has been operating as the Azerbaijan State Youth Theater. Ilham Namig Kamal worked with this collective for 4 years.
While he was working in the State Youth Theater, he also acted at the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy in 1989-1991. On 14 June 1993 he left the troupe and established his own miniature theater "Ilham".[1] Since 1995 Ilham Ahmadov has been teaching at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Art, Head of the Variety Art Department. He has 4 children: Gumru, Gumral, Ulvi, Ziya.
On 25 June 2013 he was awarded the Order of Glory (Shohrat Order). On 10 March 2014 he was awarded the Order of the Artist, established by the Union of Theater Artists of Azerbaijan.[2] Ilham Namig Kamal is the brother of actor Jafar Namig Kamal.
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.
Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Lin Gengxin
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Lin Geng Xin is a Chinese actor. Born on February 13, 1988, he also goes by Lin Gengxin and Kenny Lin. He made his acting debut in the 2009 film “The Blue Cornflower” but it was the 2011 television series “Scarlet Heart” that made him a star throughout Asia. Lin has starred in several #1 box office hits since then such as "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon" (2013), "My Old Classmate" (2014), "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" (2014), and "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" (2017) as well as television series "Princess Agents" (2017).
Lin ranked 77th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2015, 43rd in 2017, and 84th in 2019.
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Pablo Schreiber
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Pablo Tell Schreiber is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his stage work and for portraying Nick Sobotka on The Wire (2003, 2008), William Lewis on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013–2014), Mad Sweeney on the Starz series American Gods (2017–2020), and as George "Pornstache" Mendez on Orange Is the New Black (2013–2017), for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He stars as Master Chief in the Paramount+ live-action series Halo (2022–2024) which is based on the franchise of the same name.
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Robert Patrick
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Robert Hammond Patrick (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor. He is known for portraying villains and authority figures, most notably in his breakthrough role as the liquid-metal, shape-shifting T-1000 in James Cameron's blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
Patrick was born in Marietta, Georgia, the eldest of five children. He was raised there and in Boston, Dayton, Detroit, and Cleveland. He attended the Bowling Green State University in Ohio, but dropped out after he took a drama course and became interested in acting. After leaving college, he took a job as a house painter and continued as such until a boating accident in Lake Erie in 1984. He swam for three hours in order to save the others still stranded on the accident site, while he nearly drowned in his attempt. After the accident, he moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California. He worked in a bar to supplement his income and even lived in his own car.
Patrick starred in various direct-to-video television movies, and had a short appearance in Die Hard 2 (1990). After starring in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), he landed roles in various feature films such as Last Action Hero (1993), Fire in the Sky (1993) and Striptease (1996). His performance in Fire in the Sky caught the attention of Chris Carter, creator of the television series The X-Files (1993). After David Duchovny distanced himself from the series during its seventh season, Patrick was cast as FBI Special Agent John Doggett.
On the small screen, Robert was a series regular on Season Six of HBO's True Blood (2008) and also appeared in the final season. He had a memorable role in the final season of Sons of Anarchy (2008), did a cameo role on the sitcom Community (2009), and had a supporting role in Season One on Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014) for the El Rey Network. In Spring 2017, it was announced that Robert would have a featured role in Gale Anne Hurd's highly anticipated Amazon series Lore (2017), based on the popular horror podcast. Recent film credits include Universal Pictures' Identity Thief (2013) with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, Warner Brothers' Gangster Squad (2013) in which he played Josh Brolin's squad member going up against Sean Penn as Mickey Cohan, Trouble with the Curve (2012) opposite Clint Eastwood, Lovelace (2013) opposite Sharon Stone and Amanda Seyfried, Universal's remake of Endless Love (2014) with Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde, Focus Features' Kill the Messenger (2014) opposite Jeremy Renner, and The Road Within (2014) with Kyra Sedgwick and Zoë Kravitz.
In addition to his acting success, Patrick is a lifelong supporter of the military and the USO. The grandson of an Army veteran who served during World Wars I and II and the Korean War, Patrick grew up with a profound respect for troops. Devoted to giving back, he regularly goes on USO hospital visits and has participated in four USO tours in seven countries since 2008, visiting more than 8,100 service members and military families. He is a passionate Harley-Davidson enthusiast and is co-owner of Harley-Davidson of Santa Clarita. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Barbara and their two children.
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Caroline Coon
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Caroline Mary Thompson Coon (born 23 March, 1945) is an English artist known for her paintings, her feminist political activism, her writing and photography. Coon became a key player in the nascent punk scene, documenting in writing and photography its rise of key figures including the Sex Pistols, the Clash and The Slits. Following the publication of an August 1976 Melody Maker article, “Punk Rock: Rebels Against The System,” she was credited by John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) with being the first to use the adjective ‘punk’ – The Punk Rock Movement - to describe the new era of rock music being made in UK. Coon managed The Clash from 1978 to 1980, through two significant tours in the UK and North America. Her photographs of the early punk days are now published and exhibited throughout the world.
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Sal Fish
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Sal Fish (born May 2, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is CEO/President of SCORE International, the leading sanctioning body in the sport of desert racing.
The SCORE race series include the Baja 1000, Baja 500, San Felipe 250, Primm 300, Laughlin Desert Challenge and Las Vegas Terrible's Cup. Fish earned an industrial relations degree at the University of San Francisco. Having first raced in Mexico in 1970, Fish started his entrepreneurial career in desert racing in 1973 when the late Mickey Thompson, founder of SCORE International, recruited him. Fish brought innovation to SCORE, organizing class rules, implementing safety procedures, and transforming the Baja 1000 into one of the most recognized motorsports events in the world today. In 1985 Fish brought unity to the sport when SCORE formed a combined series with Walt Lott and High Desert Racing Association (HDRA). Fish later teamed up with CFO, Ted Johnson to purchase SCORE International from Thompson in 1986 and HDRA in 1993.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Sal Fish licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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India Hicks
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India Amanda Caroline Hicks is a British designer, writer, businesswoman, and former fashion model. After graduating from the New England School of Photography, Hicks became an interior designer and a model for Ralph Lauren, among others. She moved to the Bahamas in 1996, where she published books, promoted home and beauty products, and introduced a line of jewellery. She also started a local boutique shop called The Sugar Mill Trading Company. As a daughter of Lady Pamela Hicks, she is a descendant of the Mountbatten family and a relative of the British royal family. India is a second cousin and goddaughter to the Prince of Wales. Hicks spoke to Insider about her life, insisting that she is "absolutely not" a royal.
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Giselle DaMier
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Giselle DaMier is an actress and screenwriter. She started acting in theatre at eight years old, and began acting in television and film at age eleven. As a child, she was a series regular on a PBS show called, "Biz Kids." Later, she appeared as recurring characters on the Freeform show, "The Fosters," and on Showtime's revival of "Twin Peaks: The Return." Giselle also played Jade in, "Blackout," a podcast starring Rami Malek, and has enjoyed playing roles in cult cinema such as "The Love Witch." As a screenwriter, she has written various award winning shorts and features, and she also co-wrote a feature film produced by James Franco.
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