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Latifah started her career beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh.[3] Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, w ...

Rosie ODonnell

Raised Irish Catholic, O'Donnell lost her mother to cancer as a pre-teen and has consistently stressed values of protecting children and supporting families throughout he ...

Meat Loaf

In 1977, Meat Loaf and lyricist Jim Steinman released an operatic rock album called "Bat Out Of Hell", the record was huge and has sold 35,000,000 copies worldw ...

Sandra Bullock

Bullock was born in Arlington County, Virginia, the daughter of Helga D. Meyer, a German opera singer, and John W. Bullock, a Pentagon contractor, executive and part-time ...

Luciano Pavarotti

Popular stardom came at the 1990 World Cup in Italy with the performances of Nessun Dorma,sample (help·info) from Turandot and as one of The Three Tenors in their ...

Sasha Azevedo

Originally from San Diego California, this southern beauty grew up in Charleston SC, where Sasha Azevedo enrolled in modeling school at a tender age, graduated, and short ...

Toni Braxton

Toni Michelle Braxton Lewis was born October 7th, 1967 in Severn, Maryland. Toni Braxton is the oldest of six children. Toni Braxton began singing early in th ...

Barack Obama

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 ...

Whoopi Goldberg

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 ...

Salma Hayek

The amazing Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek has freely admitted that Salma Hayek and her brother, Sami, wer ...

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Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven

Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven biography: 1908 - Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven was born in Norrkoping, Sweden on May 30, 1908. 1934 - Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven received his PHD from the University of Uppsala and taught physics at both the University of Uppsala and the Nobel Institute for Physics in Stockholm, Sweden. 1937 - Hannes Olof ...

Maurice Bloomfield

Maurice Bloomfield biography: 1855 - Bloomfield was born on 23rd of February in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia (Poland). American Sanskrit scholar.1867 - Maurice Bloomfield went to the United States, and ten years later graduated from Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. - Studied ...

Barnab Brisson

Barnab Brisson biography: 1777 - Born on October 11th in Lyon, France. 1793 - Entered the École des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and began to study at the newly created École Centrale des Travaux Publics which had opened that year. 1796 - Barnab Brisson graduated from was admitted to the Corp ...

Friedrich Karl Brugmann

Friedrich Karl Brugmann biography: 1849 - Born on March 16th. in Wiesbaden, Nassau, Germany. German linguist who gained a position of preeminence in comparative Indo-European linguistics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a result of his comprehensive and still-authoritative research in this field. 1876 - His own contri ...

Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud biography: French actor, critic, and drama theorist originated Theater of Cruelty movement ...

Pieter Brueghel

Pieter Brueghel biography: Flemish painter ...