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Was an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as social worker Mrs. Sellner in Mrs. Doubt

Was an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as social worker Mrs. Sellner in Mrs. Doubtfire and for her unique, high-octave voice.Haney appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Survivors as Rishon Uxbridge, and later appeared as a Bajoran arbitrator in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Dax”. She was a regular guest-star during the syndicated run of Mama's Family, playing Alberta Meechum, the nemesis of Thelma Harper and also guest starred on The Golden Girls, Charmed, Boy Meets World, Columbo, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Was a Canadian author and poet.

Was a Canadian author and poet.

Is a Canadian alpine skier.She also won a first in slalom and giant slalom in the United States nati

Is a Canadian alpine skier.She also won a first in slalom and giant slalom in the United States national junior championships. Although she suffered from several injuries between 1955 and 1957, she still earned a spot on Canada's team at age 17 at the 1956 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.Anne was educat

Is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.Anne was educated at Stuart Hall, an all-girl boarding school in Staunton, Virginia. She then went to Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literature in 1947. She married in 1950 and has three children: Alec Anthony, born in 1952, Todd, born in 1956, and Georgeanne, born in 1959. She was divorced in 1970, after which she emigrated to Ireland.

Is an American actress and singer

Is an American actress and singer

Is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada, who won two bronze medals at the 1976 Summe

Is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada, who won two bronze medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in her hometown Montreal.

Is an American actress and singer.Her plans for an operatic career were sidelined when she was cast

Is an American actress and singer.Her plans for an operatic career were sidelined when she was cast in a staged musical review, Fun for the Money. Her appearance in that revue led to her being cast in her first movie role, in I Married an Angel (1942), starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. She was under contract to both RKO and Republic Studios during the 1940s, including several appearances as Tess in the Dick Tracy series, and the 1942 Frank Sinatra musical Step Lively

Is a former competitive diver and, now, a lawyer. Montminy had a number of highpoints in her diving

Is a former competitive diver and, now, a lawyer. Montminy had a number of highpoints in her diving career. She won a gold medal on the 10m platform at 1994 Commonwealth Games and the 1995 Pan American Games. She participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics i

Is an international rider from the United States, who competes in the sport of show jumping. She is

Is an international rider from the United States, who competes in the sport of show jumping. She is one of the leading woman riders in the sport today. Kursinski currently resides in Frenchtown, New Jersey at Market Street Farm.

Is an rower from the United States.She competed for the United States in the 1984 Summer Olympics he

Is an rower from the United States.She competed for the United States in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the quadruple sculls event where she finished in second place. She competed for the United States in the 1988 Summer Ol

An American television and theater actress, known for playing Alexandra Borgia on the television dra

An American television and theater actress, known for playing Alexandra Borgia on the television drama Law & Order, a role she played from 2005 until 2006 in 34 episodes as well as Julia Lindsey Snyder from the daytime soap opera As the World Turns.Parisse guest-starred on shows such as Big Apple, Third Watch, and Friends. She made a 2002 appearance on Law & Order, playing an exotic dancer in the episode "Attorney Client" where she testified against another defendant (a defense attorney) who plotted the murder of his wife.

Was an American advocate of racial equality. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in rigidly seg

Was an American advocate of racial equality. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in rigidly segregated Anniston, Alabama, Braden grew up in a middle class family that accepted southern racial mores whole-heartedly. A devout Episcopalian, Braden was bothered by racial segregation, but never questioned it until her college years at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia. After working on newspapers in Anniston and Birmingham, she returned to Kentucky as a young adult to write for the Louisville Times. There, she met and in 1948 married fellow newspaperman Carl Braden, a left-wing trade unionist. She became a supporter of the civil rights movement at a time when it was unpopular among southern whites.

Is an American comedian and actress. She and Jerry Stiller are the parents of actor/comedian Ben and

Is an American comedian and actress. She and Jerry Stiller are the parents of actor/comedian Ben and actress Amy Stiller, and were a prominent 1960s comedy team, appearing as Stiller and Meara.

A retired Canadian curler from Ottawa. Merklinger is a two-time runner-up at the Tournament of Heart

A retired Canadian curler from Ottawa. Merklinger is a two-time runner-up at the Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's championship. She curled out of the Rideau Curling Club.After attending the 1990 and 1991 Tournament of Hearts' as an alternate for

Is an African-American author who has written about her experiences growing up poor and black in rur

Is an African-American author who has written about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, joining the Civil Rights Movement, and fighting racism against blacks in the United States beginning in the 1960s.

Was a pioneering American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.Anne w

Was a pioneering American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.Anne was raised in a household that fostered achievement. Every day at 5 PM, her mother would drop everything and read to her children. After the young Morrows outgrew this practice, they would employ that hour to read by themselves, or to write poetry and diaries. Anne in particular later capitalized on this routine learned in her youth to write her diaries, eventually published to critical acclaim.

Is an economist and was the former World Bank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986. She was the first D

Is an economist and was the former World Bank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986. She was the first Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, serving since September 1, 2001.

Is a former breaststroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer

Is a former breaststroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There she won three medals: gold (200m Breaststroke), silver (100m Breaststroke), and bronze (4x100 m medley relay).

(born on August 31, 1937) is an American golfer.

(born on August 31, 1937) is an American golfer.

Was an American actress who is probably most famous for her roles as Mama Fratelli in Richard Donner

Was an American actress who is probably most famous for her roles as Mama Fratelli in Richard Donner's The Goonies, and as Mrs. Lift, the mother of Danny DeVito's character in her Academy Award nominated performance in Throw Momma from the Train.

Is a best-selling American author of gothic and religious-themed books. She is best known for her pr

Is a best-selling American author of gothic and religious-themed books. She is best known for her prevailing thematical focus on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history. [1][2][3][4]

Was an American poet and writer.sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life

Was an American poet and writer.sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life near Boston, Massachusetts. In 1945, Sexton began attending a boarding school, Rogers Hall, in Lowell, Massachusetts. For a time as a young woman, she modeled at Boston's Hart Agency. Although she was already engaged to someone else, in August 1948 she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton, known as "Kayo." The couple drove from Massachusetts to North Carolina, where the legal marrying age was 18. Before their divorce in the early 1970s, she had two children with Kayo: Linda Gray Sexton, later a novelist and memoirist, and Joyce Sexton. Controversy was stirred with the posthumous public release of tapes recorded during Sexton's psychotherapy (and thus subject to doctor-patient confidentiality), in which Sexton revealed the attempted incestuous rape of her daughter her daughter.[1] In this case the crime is confirmed by her duaghter, although no legal action was ever taken.

Is a female former professional tennis player from the United States. Smith's highest women's double

Is a female former professional tennis player from the United States. Smith's highest women's doubles ranking was World No. 1 in 1980 and 1981. Her highest singles ranking was World No. 12 in 1982. Smith is the author of Grand Slam: Coach Your Mind to Win in Sports, Business & Life, with a foreword by Billie Jean King, and The MACH 4 Mental Training System: A Handbook for Athletes, Coaches and Parents. Smith is a licensed psychologist in Texas, Massachusetts, and Arizona; a licensed specialist in school psychology in Texas; and a certified school psychologist in Arizona.

. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential works

. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential works is the feature integration theory of attention, first published with G. Gelade in 1980. According to this model, different kinds of attention are responsible for binding different features into consciously experienced wholes. The theory of feature integration is very dominant in the field of visual attention to this day. Another influential idea, Jeremy Wolfe's theory called Guided Search, took many ideas from the feature integration theory and most works in the field of visual attention that work with the concept of a saliency map reference back to her feature integration theory.

Was a major American artist of the mid-20th century; she is associated with both minimalism and Colo

Was a major American artist of the mid-20th century; she is associated with both minimalism and Color Field artists like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in psychology in 1943. She was married to James Truitt in 1948 (they divorced in 1969), and she became a full-time artist in the 1950's. She made what is considered her most important work in the early 1960s anticipating in many respects the work of minimalists like Donald Judd and Ellsworth Kelly. She was unlike minimalists in some significant ways.