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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Pierre Ravier

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Pierre Ravier and his twin brother Jean Ravier, born in Paris on October 20, 1933 to Olympe and Albert Ravier, are French climbers and Pyrenees climbers. They have an older sister and will be followed by four other sisters and two brothers. In 1936, the family moved to Bordeaux where Albert took over a business selling spare parts for automobiles during the Somme. In 1940, mobilized, he was taken prisoner and remained so for a year. Olympe and her children retreated to Tuzaguet, in the Hautes-Pyrénées. Turbulent and quarrelsome, the twins climbed trees and explored the many caves in the region. With their aunt Line, the "free electron" of the family, they listened to Radio London. After the Allied landings of June 6, 1944, they made a huge Lorraine cross out of fabric and unfurled it from the top of a large magnolia. In 1946, they discovered the mountain during a family excursion to Néouvielle. In 1950, they made their first climbs alone. After climbing the north face of the Petit Pic du Midi d'Ossau, they climbed the Gaube couloir in Vignemale in 1951, their first ice climb which was then the most difficult in the Pyrenees. From then on, they formed an almost inseparable rope team that collected many first ascents in the Pyrenees during the 1950s and 1960s. The Ravier brothers were the main figures in the post-war revival of Pyreneism and climbed with other mountaineers such as Guy Santamaria, Raymond Despiau, Claude Dufourmantelle and especially with Pierre Bouchet. They also sometimes climbed abroad, in Spain, in the Caucasus or in Algeria in the Hoggar. Jean Ravier was selected to participate in 1962, along with Lionel Terray, Robert Paragot, René Desmaison and Guido Magnone, in the French expedition to Jannu (7,710 m), the summit of which he reached on April 28, the day after the success of the first expedition team. The Ravier brothers continued to climb until the early 2000s. His twin brother Jean Ravier died on September 23, 2022.
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Kornchid Boonsathitpakdee

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Nine Kornchid Boonsathitpakdee is a Thai actor, model, and singer. He is famously known by many for his role as Kit in the hit Thai-BL Series "2 Moons 2" under Motive Village in 2019. Together with the other main cast of 2 Moons 2, they debuted as a Thai boy group named "OXQ" still under Motive Village. OXQ debuted on June 4, 2020 with the digital single "ผมเองครับ(ME)". Their group name stands for "Ordinary X Quake". All members were main roles in the drama '2 Moons 2'. The group presumably disbanded in 2020 after multiple ongoing controversies and all members leaving the company. He is also a trainee under Insight Entertainment. On April 24, 2021, he debuted as a member of the International boy group INTO1 after receiving 5th place in Chuang 2021. He can speak English, Thai, Chinese and Japanese. He is Thai with Chinese Descent.
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Merv Daub

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Merv enjoyed a successful career of over 30 years as an academic economist at Smith School of Business. During that period he was a member or chair of virtually every committee in the School and served on numerous university-wide committees as well. He has also presented at numerous conferences and seminars, and been a guest lecturer at various universities around the world. Merv has published six books and over 60 articles on subjects ranging from economic forecasting to business, sport, history and energy matters. He has been a member of the Canadian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, the International Institute of Forecasters and various other professional associations. His professional accomplishments also include being a Senior Policy Analyst with the Government of Canada and a member of the Ontario Energy Board (where he chaired an Ontario Hydro rate case hearing). He was also Chair of the Building committee for the Goodes Hall project. Currently retired, and an Emeritus Professor at Queen's, he has also served on several other boards including the Board of the Kingston General Hospital (where he chaired the Audit Committee), that of the Community Foundation of Kingston and the Area, the Board of Trustees of Queen's University (where he also chaired the Audit Committee) and the Board of the Canadian Automobile Association (where he chaired various committees). His awards include the Padre Laverty Award and the Distinguished Service Award (both for service to Queen’s). He is also a member of the Queen’s Football Hall of Fame as both a Player and a Builder.
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Peter the Great

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Peter the Great was a remarkably intelligent German-born German shepherd, who after two years of training at the Berlin Police Academy, was brought to Hollywood to perform in movies. In 1926, after appearing in several Hollywood features, Peter was shot and killed during a possible alcohol fueled dispute between his master and another dog fancier. A jury later awarded Peter's owner, who had asked for a quarter of a million dollars, $100,000 plus $25,000 in punitive damages, a record at that time for the slaying of a dog. In 1931 another jury found that "No dog can be considered in the same category as a human" and declared the 1927 damage award as grossly excessive.
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Haroldo de Campos

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Haroldo Eurico Browne de Campos (São Paulo, August 19, 1929 - São Paulo, August 16, 2003) was a Brazilian baroque poet and translator. Haroldo studied at Colégio São Bento, where he learned his first foreign languages, such as Latin, English, Spanish and French. He entered the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo at the end of the 1940s and released his first book, O Auto do Possesso, in 1949, when he took part in the Poetry Club alongside Décio Pignatari. In 1952, Décio, Haroldo and his brother Augusto de Campos broke with the Club because they disagreed with the prevailing conservatism among the poets, known as the “Generation of '45”. They then founded the Noigandres group and began publishing poems in the group's magazine, with the same title. In the following years, he defended the theses that would lead the three of them to inaugurate, in 1956, the concretist movement, to which he remained faithful until 1963, when he inaugurated a particular path, focusing his attention on the project of the book-poem “Galáxias”. Description above from the Wikipedia article Haroldo de Campos licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Emiliano Vargas

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Emiliano Vargas, or simply Minotauro, is a mexican young director. Inclined to experiment with the cinematographic image and sound, have created more than five shortfilms among 'DEVENIR-ARTE-RESISTENCIA' (2018), Official Selection at Universidad Iberoamericana's 'Visible Lo Invisible' Art Exhibition; 'Segunda Cerrada del Reflejo' (2022) his first shortfilm to be screened internationally at europeans film festivals. He have founded, with some friends, an autonomous/independent film production company named Máquina de Guerra, dedicated to support some experimental, quirky and horror films.
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Jake Lloyd

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Jake Lloyd is a former American actor, who gained worldwide fame when he was chosen by George Lucas to play the young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the first film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. He reprised this role in five subsequent Star Wars video games. Lloyd is also known for his recurring roles as Jimmy Sweet in ER, and Young Angelo in The Pretender. He previously guest starred in the show as a character named Ronny Collins. He also appeared in the 1998 TV film Host. He retired from acting in 2001. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Lloyd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mário de Andrade

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Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City), published in 1922. He has had considerable influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil. Andrade was a central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo modernism. His photography and essays on a wide variety of subjects, from history to literature and music, were widely published. He was the driving force behind the Modern Art Week, the 1922 event that reshaped both literature and the visual arts in Brazil, and a member of the avant-garde "Group of Five". The ideas behind the Week were further explored in the preface to his poetry collection Pauliceia Desvairada, and in the poems themselves. After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist, he published his great novel, Macunaíma, in 1928. Work on Brazilian folk music, poetry, and other concerns followed unevenly, often interrupted by Andrade's shifting relationship with the Brazilian government. At the end of his life, he became the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture, formalizing a role he had long held as a catalyst of the city's—and the nation's—entry into artistic modernity. (Wikipedia)
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Rhea Seehorn

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Deborah Rhea Seehorn (born May 12, 1972) is an American actress and director. She is best known for playing attorney Kim Wexler in AMC's Better Call Saul (2015–2022), for which she has won two Satellite Awards for Best Supporting Actress and one Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television. She has also appeared in NBC's Whitney (2011–2013), ABC's I'm with Her (2003–2004), and TNT's Franklin & Bash (2011–2014). Her mother was an executive assistant for the United States Navy, while her father was an agent in the Naval Investigative Service; her family moved frequently during her childhood, living in states such as Washington, D.C. and Arizona, as well as countries like Japan. Following in the footsteps of her father and grandmother, she studied painting, drawing, and architecture from a young age. She continued pursuing the visual arts, but had a growing passion for acting and was introduced to contemporary theater in college. She graduated from George Mason University in 1994 with a BA in Studio Art. While in college, Seehorn was looking to get into theater, after the encouragement of her acting teacher. She worked many ancillary positions in the theater industry in D.C. to try to get noticed. She ended up getting some major roles in local theater productions, but still needed to take odd jobs to help make ends meet; she took roles in various industrial short instructional films. She soon started getting parts in more television productions, often playing roles that she considered as "very wry, sarcastic, knowing women", similar to her idol Bea Arthur. However, most of these roles were short-run series cancelled after one or two seasons. In May 2014, Seehorn was cast in the Breaking Bad spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul. Seehorn portrays Kim Wexler, a lawyer and the love interest of the titular Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk). The series premiered on February 8, 2015. For her role, she has twice won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, once won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television, and has been nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama. Seehorn is currently starring in Vince Gilligan's next series after Better Call Saul. The series was ordered for two seasons by Apple TV+ in September 2022. The title of the project is Pluribus, and it premiered on Apple TV on November 7, 2025.
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