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121Maurício Peixoto — Maurício Matos Peixoto, born on April 15 of 1921, in Fortaleza, Ceará, is a Brazilian engineer who pursued a bright career as a mathematician. He pioneered the studies on structural stability, and is the author of Peixoto s theorem. Once, while… …
122Charles Messina — (b. October 21, 1971 in New York City) is an American playwright, screenwriter and director. Messina was born in Greenwich Village, of Italian American descent. He attended Xavier High School and then later, New York University. Known for his… …
123Lorena (song) — Lorena is an antebellum song with Northern origins. Written in 1856 by Rev. Henry D. L. Webster, after a broken engagement to his sweetheart. He wrote a long poem about his fiancée but changed her name to Lorena, an adaptation of Lenore from… …
124Matt Tavares — Matthew Manuel Tavares (born December 4, 1975) is an American author and illustrator of picture books for children.[1] He attended Bates College, and now lives in Maine with his wife and two daughters.[2] Tavares is the author illustrator of… …
125Bill Myers — is an American Christian author, film director and film producer. He was born in Seattle, Washington September 9, 1953. Myers is most notable for the largely successful animated series The Adventures of McGee and Me. He is an author of a wide… …
126Eugenia Del Pino — Eugenia Maria del Pino Veintimilla (b. 1945, Quito, Ecuador) is a developmental biologist. She was the first Ecuadorian woman to be elected to the Latin American Academy of Sciences (1988), and first Ecuadorian to be elected to the United States… …
127The Newry Highwayman — Lyrics In Newry Town I was bred and bornIn Stephen s Green, now I die in scornI spent my time in the saddling tradeBut I turned out to beBut I turned out to be a roving blade.At Seventeen I took a wifeI loved her dearly as I loved my lifeAnd for… …
128Thomas Adeoye Lambo — (March 29, 1923 March 13, 2004) was a Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist. He is credited as the first western trained psychiatrist in Nigeria and Africa. Between 1971 1988, he worked at the World Health Organization, becoming the… …
