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Phil Collins

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Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. His singles, often dealing with lost love ...

Sofia Vergara

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Vergara moved to Bogotá at the age of 20, where Sofia Vergara worked as a model on the runway and on TV. From 1995 to 1999, Sofia Vergara was co-host with Fernando ...

Lindsay Lohan

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Lohan rose to stardom with her leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Her subsequent roles i ...

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Eating in a local restaurant, Sarah Michelle Gellar was discovered by an agent when Sarah Michelle Gellar was 4 years old. Soon after Sarah Michelle Gellar was making her ...

Whoopi Goldberg

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She is one of only thirteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, including Daytime Emmy Awards. Whoopi Goldberg is the second African Americ ...

Vanessa Paradis

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Vanessa Paradis is one of the most beautiful French actresses. Vanessa Paradis was discovered on the TV show L'École des fans in 1980. Vanessa Paradis recorded he ...

Rachelle Ann Go

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She joined and won several contests. Her television debut on "Eat Bulaga!," a hit noon-time variety show, happened when Rachelle Ann Go was just eleven. Rachell ...

Shirley Bassey

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Throughout the 1960s, Bassey had numerous hits on the British charts. Her recording of "As Long As Shirley Bassey Needs Me" from Lionel Bart's Oliver! reached n ...

Sheryn Regis

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Aside from singing, Regis tried teaching voice lessons to children while in high school. In her college years, Sheryn was able to finish her B.S. Secondary Education, Maj ...

Barack Obama

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Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York's racial tension inescapable. Barack Obama became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for ...

Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges biography

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1901 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges was born on the 28th of July in Kensington, near Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

1920 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges immigrated to US.

1921 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges joined Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

1933 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges organized San Francisco local of International Longshoremen's Association (ILA).

1934 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges led longshoremen's strike in San Francisco, evolving into three-day general strike.

1935 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges organized seven West Coast ILA locals into Maritime Federation of the Pacific.

1936 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges led five-month strike by Maritime Federation (unauthorized by ILA), then broke with ILA and led Maritime Federation into Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

1937 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges re-organized Maritime Federation as International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU).

         - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges became 1st president of International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.

1938 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges ordered deported by Frances Perkins, but order overturned 1939.

1940 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges ordered deported by House of Representatives and Francis Biddle, but vindicated by Supreme Court.

1949-1950 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges indicted and convicted of perjury for having denied Communist Party membership in oath of naturalization, and sentenced to seven years in prison (conviction overturned on appeal).

1990 - Alfred Bryant Renton Bridges died on the 30th of March in San Francisco, Calif., U.S.

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