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Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor who held several United States patents. He is credited with developing and improving inventions such as a beer tap , a modification of an automatic gear shift mechanism for motor vehicles, and a safety braking system for trucks and buses.
In 1988 Dr. Spikes accepted the position of president of the Southern University and A&M College System.-- she not only was the first woman to lead a public college or university in Louisiana, she also was the first woman in the US to serve as chief administrator for a university system. [4]
Missing Titanic submarine: Timeline of how the deep-sea tragedy unfolded 06:03 , Graeme Massie Five crew members are presumed to be dead after the Titan submarine suffered a ‘catastrophic ...
Grimes was born in San Francisco, California. His uncle was actor Rudy Solari. [1] Grimes' first major role was in the 1971 film Summer of '42, playing a teenager, based on author Herman Raucher, who has an affair with a beautiful older woman (Jennifer O'Neill).
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His first book, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, was published in 1982. It was an account of his journey from being a "socially disadvantaged child" to becoming a fully assimilated American, from the Spanish-speaking world of his family to the wider, presumably freer, public world of English.
Writer and broadcaster Emma Freud has revealed that she and her partner, rom-com king Richard Curtis, have wed in secret after 33 years together.. Curtis, 66, is known to millions as the man ...
Stroumboulopoulos was born in Malton, Ontario, a neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, to a Greek father from Egypt and a Ukrainian mother. [3] He was raised in Toronto, primarily by his mother and a close-knit extended family. [4]