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smiling The French neurologist, Duchenne du Boulogne, writing in the nineteenth century, made a fundamental discovery about the nature of smiling, a discovery that was forgotten for a hundred years. Duchenne electrically stimulated different positions on the face of a patient who had no pain... Read more
Samuel Smiles Samuel Smiles
Smiles, Samuel (1812–1904). Popularizer of the dominant social values of middle-class Victorian Britain. By profession a doctor, Smiles worked for a time as a radical journalist in Leeds before settling down as secretary (i.e. chief executive officer) to a succession of railway companies. In... Read more
Ban Ki-Moon Ban Ki-Moon
Ban Ki-Moon Ban Ki-moon (born 1944) was sworn in late in 2006 as secretary-general of the United Nations (U.N.). The former South Korean foreign minister took office on January 1, 2007, after predecessor Kofi Annan completed two five-year terms. Ban, whom the United States backed for the new... Read more
Ichiro Suzuki Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro SuzukiOctober 22, 1973 • Kasugai, JapanBaseball playerIchiro Suzuki has millions of dedicated fans in his native Japan, with his image appearing in daily newspapers and smiling from billboards, coffee mugs, and T-shirts. There is even a museum dedicated to him. Known to his adoring public... Read more
Mary Lou Retton Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton 1968- American gymnast Mary Lou Retton burst onto the gymnastic front with all the vivaciousness she could muster, and in doing so, took the world by storm. She changed the way people thought of a gymnast, not having the typical physique for the sport. Retton was very... Read more
Shirley Temple Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple 1928-, American child film star, b. Santa Monica, Calif., as Shirley Jane Temple. She started in movies at three-and-a-half and starred in her first feature ( Stand Up and Cheer! ) in 1934. An accomplished singer and dancer, little Shirley, with her golden curls, dimples, and... Read more
Richard Tauber Richard Tauber
Richard Tauber , 1891-1948, Austrian tenor. He made his debut (1913) in Chemnitz, Germany, as Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute. Later he sang in opera and concert all over Europe and made his American debut in 1931. Although he was noted for his operatic roles and as a lieder singer, Tauber was best... Read more
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Rupaul 1960– Entertainer Fame a Childhood Goal Darkest Before the Dawn Three-Hour Transformation Selected discography Sources Other than his height, a considerable 6′7″, RuPaul is an average-looking man with a pleasant, freckled face and an open smile. Dressed as a woman, with... Read more
Anthony Anderson Anthony Anderson
Anderson, Anthony August 15, 1970 • Augusta, Maine Actor, writer, producer With his boyish face and gap-toothed smile, and weighing over 270 pounds, Anthony Anderson is not a typical Hollywood leading man. In fact, for most of his career he has played second banana in such films as Big... Read more
carpe diem carpe diem
carpe diem , a descriptive term for literature that urges readers to live for the moment [from the Latin phrase "seize the day," used by Horace]. The theme, which was widely used in 16th- and 17th-century love poetry, is best exemplified by a familiar stanza from Robert Herrick's "To the... Read more

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Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) ...like the jolly ladies in a Beryl Cook picture, with big hats, big bums, big smiles. Beside them are men with...what we do. And what a proud legacy that is of the men who fought...be different. What other nation in the world could not merely...

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