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Lucian Truscott IV
Lucian King Truscott IV (born April 11, 1947) is an American writer and journalist. A former staff writer for ''The Village Voice'', he is the author of several military-themed novels including ''Dress Gray,'' which was adapted into a 1986 television film of the same name. Life Truscott was born in Japan to US Army Colonel Lucian K. Truscott III and Anne (née Harloe)."Lucian K. Truscott, IV." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Biography In Context. Web. June 5, 2013. His grandfather Lucian Jr. was a US Army general during World War II where he commanded the 3rd Infantry Division and later the Fifth Army in Italy. His father Lucian III served in the US Army in Korea and Vietnam, retiring as a colonel. Truscott attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1969. In 1968, Truscott and other cadets challenged the required attendance at chapel services. Later a court case filed by another cadet along with midshipmen at the United States Naval Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Harris
__NOTOC__ Tracy Harris (born 1958) is an American artist, known for her Abstract art, abstract, Encaustic painting, encaustic paintings. Tracy Harris lives in Milford (town), Pennsylvania . Biography Tracy Harris was born in 1958 in Lawton, Oklahoma, Lawton, Oklahoma, and she grew up in Dallas, Texas, Dallas, Texas until age 10. Her parents are Janene Harris and architect, Hayes Harris. After age 10, the family moved a lot after her father took a civilian architect role with the United States Army and United States Air Force, Air Force, they lived in Honolulu, Guam, Manila, and Thailand. She attended Southern Methodist University, receiving a BFA degree and Master of Fine Arts, MFA degree in 1983. After college she worked at the Dallas Museum of Art and taught painting classes. It was through her work at the Dallas museum she was connected by a mutual friend to minimalist artist Dan Flavin, initially as a penpal and later as long distance dating. She married Dan Flavin in 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Novelists
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The Village Voice People
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Jefferson Family
The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with J. Jacks and the Halls * George Whitfield Jack, Sr. (1875–1924), judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana 1917 to 1924, father of Whitfield Jack and Wellborn Jack, maternal uncle of William Pike Hall, Sr., great-uncle of Pike Hall, Jr. ** George Whitfield Jack, Jr. (1906–1989), attorney in his native Shreveport, Louisiana; World War II colonel and postwar major general in the United States Army Reserve, son of George W. Jack, brother of Wellborn Jack, cousin of William Pike Hall, Sr., and first cousin once removed from Pike Hall, Jr. ** Wellborn Jack (1907–1991), Shreveport attorney and member from 1940 to 1964 of the Louisiana House of Representatives, son of George W. Jack, brother of Whitfield Jack, cousin of William Pike Hall, Sr., first cousin once removed from Pike Hall, Jr. ** William Pike Hall, Sr. (1896–1945), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Military Academy Alumni
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Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He twice sought office—unsuccessfully—as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California). A grandson of a U.S. Senator, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in ''The Nation'', the ''New Statesman'', the ''New York Revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, and producer. In his early career, Baldwin played both leading and supporting roles in a variety of films such as Tim Burton's ''Beetlejuice'' (1988), Mike Nichols' ''Working Girl'' (1988), Jonathan Demme's ''Married to the Mob'' (1988), and Oliver Stone's ''Talk Radio (film), Talk Radio'' (1988). He gained attention for his performances as Jack Ryan (character), Jack Ryan in ''The Hunt for Red October (film), The Hunt for Red October'' (1990) and in ''Glengarry Glen Ross (film), Glengarry Glen Ross'' (1992). Since then he has worked with directors such as Woody Allen in ''Alice (1990 film), Alice'' (1990), ''To Rome With Love (film), To Rome with Love'' (2012) and ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013), and Martin Scorsese in ''The Aviator (2004 film), The Aviator'' (2004) and ''The Departed'' (2006). His performance in the drama ''The Cooler'' (2003) garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Albert
Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was an American actor and activist. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; the first nomination came in 1954 for his performance in ''Roman Holiday'', and the second in 1973 for '' The Heartbreak Kid''. Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the ''Brother Rat'' films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical ''Oklahoma!'', and the sadistic prison warden in 1974's '' The Longest Yard''. He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom '' Green Acres'' and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama ''Switch''. He also had a recurring role as Carlton Travis on '' Falcon Crest'', opposite Jane Wyman. Early life Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on April 22, 1906, the eldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a real estate agent, and his wife, Julia Jones. His year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Holbrook
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and screenwriter. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show that he developed called ''Mark Twain Tonight!'' while studying at Denison University. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain. He continued to perform his signature role for over 60 years, only retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing health. Throughout his career, he also won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in film. Holbrook made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's ''The Group'' (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film ''All the President's Men''. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1973 miniseries ''Lincoln'' and 1985 miniseries ''North and South''. He also appeared in such films as ''Julia'' (1977), ''The Fog'' (1980) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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