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Kenneth Ken Barlow is a long-standing fictional character from the ITV soap opera Coronation Street played by William Roache. Ken was created by Tony Warren as one of Coronation Street’s […]

Henry the Proud (c. 1108 – 20 October 1139) was the Duke of Bavaria (Henry X 1126–1139) Duke of Saxony (Henry II 1137–1139) and Margrave of Tuscany (1137–1139).

Carlos Ray Chuck Norris (born March 10 1940) is an American martial artist and actor. After serving in the United States Air Force he began his rise to fame as […]

Hugo Banzer Suárez (May 10 1926 – May 5 2002) was a politician military general dictator and President of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from August 22 1971 […]

Neal Adams (born June 15 1941) is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters […]

Charles Chuck Wepner (born February 26 1939) is a former heavyweight boxer from Bayonne New Jersey. As a tough journeyman boxer he went 15 rounds with world heavyweight champion Muhammad […]

George Ritzer (born 1940) is an American sociologist professor and author who studies globalization metatheory patterns of consumption and modern and postmodern social theory. His most notable contribution to date […]

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Torsten Bunde Veblen; July 30 1857 – August 3 1929) was an American economist and sociologist and leader of the institutional economics movement. Besides his technical […]

Dr. Kristján Eldjárn (6 December 1916 – 14 September 1982) was the third President of Iceland from 1968 to 1980.His parents were Þórarinn Kr. Eldjárn a teacher in Tjörn and […]

Sveinn Björnsson (pronounced [ˈsveitn̪ ˈpjœsːɔn]; 27 February 1881 – 25 January 1952) son of Björn Jónsson (editor and later minister) and Elísabet Sveinsdóttir was the first President of the Republic […]