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Sheena Shirley Easton (née Orr; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and actress who rose to prominence in the reality television series The Big Time: Pop Singer (1980).
Benjamin Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler, soaper, and candlemaker. Josiah Franklin was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, to Thomas Franklin and Jane White. Benjamin's father and all four of his grandparents were born in England. [13] Josiah Franklin had a total of seventeen children with his two wives. He married his first wife, Anne ...
Perry Mason is an American legal drama series aired on CBS from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, played by Raymond Burr, is a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes were based on stories written by Gardner. Perry Mason was one of Hollywood's first weekly one-hour series filmed for ...
Christian Charles Philip Bale [2] was born on 30 January 1974 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, to English parents—Jenny James, a circus performer, and David Bale, an entrepreneur and activist. [3][4][5] Bale has remarked, "I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh—I'm English". [1] He has two elder sisters, Sharon and Louise, and a half-sister from his father's first marriage, Erin. [5 ...
Sophia Anna Bush (born July 8, 1982) [1] is an American actress. She starred as Brooke Davis in The WB / CW drama series One Tree Hill (2003–2012), and as Erin Lindsay in the NBC police procedural drama series Chicago P.D. (2014–2017). She was a producer for and starred in the lead role of Dr. Samantha "Sam" Griffith in the medical drama Good Sam (2022). Bush has also appeared in films ...
In 2006, U.S. authorities charged a former Pentagon analyst, Ben-Ami Kadish, for espionage he committed back in the 1980s. Kadish, an American engineer at the Army's Picatinny Arsenal, admitted that from 1979 to 1985 he gave an Israeli agent classified manuals on U.S. missile defense systems, nuclear weapons design, and the F-15 fighter jet.
On September 14, 2012, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a statement arguing the attack was revenge for the death of al-Libi, though they did not claim official responsibility for the Benghazi attack. [113] It was later reported that 3 operatives from the group did take part in the attack. [113]
Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021.