Lionel Richie, born June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, is a globally acclaimed American singer, songwriter, and music producer. His journey began in the late 1960s as a member of the funk and soul band, The Commodores, signed to Motown Records. During this stint, Lionel was noted for...
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Admiral James “Ace” Lyons served in the U.S. Navy for thirty-six years as a Surface Warfare Officer who also served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations and a was a Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations. I had the p...
I served on the IOWA from March,1953 to 1955 in Engine room #4. Stops included Cuba, Gibraltar, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Nice, France, Algiers, Italy, Turkey, Greece, and Portugal. I started training at the age of 17 on a kiddy cruise and was honorably discharged the day before turnin...
He jumped from the gallows where he was to be hanged and broke his neck and so avoiding execution. David Beckham Beckham is a leading English footballer and a former star of the legendary team Manchester United. Thomas Paine British-born American writer and Revolutionary leader who wrote the ...
Welsh Royal Marine sniper Matt Hughes was participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, looking for a perfect occasion to shoot some dudes from really far away. He found it in two Iraqi troops who were holding up the offensive. Hughes was ordered to take them out. And not out to dinner, ...
9). She left from Boston for Burma (now Myanmar) on September 23, 1905 as part of a group of 21 missionaries of the American Baptist Union (Detroit Free Press, 9/24/1905, p. 4). Kittie was financially supported by the Woman’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West. She ...
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Winston Churchill, born in Woodstock, England in 1874, was a dynamic statesman, orator, and author whose political career spanned over half a century. The son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his American wife Jennie Jerome, he was a direct descendent of the Dukes of Marlborough. His early yea...