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Coral Wong Pietsch – United States Army Reserve Brigadier General, first female Asian American general officer; Suzanne Vares-Lum (born 1967 - United States Army Major-General, served in Iraq War; Francis B. Wai – United States Army Captain, only Chinese American to have been awarded the Medal of Honor
The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Most formulations include the possibility of mixtures among the types where an individual's personality types overlap and they share two or more temperaments.
Molly Luft, German prostitute, brothel owner and television personality; Brooke Magnanti, blogger and scientist who wrote as Belle de Jour and was the inspiration for Billie Piper's character in Secret Diary of a Call Girl; Domenica Niehoff, German prostitute, dominatrix, sex worker rights activist and television personality
Hinojosa, a Mexican-American journalist, is the anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, a public radio show devoted to Latino issues. She helped launch Latino USA in 1992 and has also worked ...
American singer and songwriter who was the original lead vocalist of the band Alice in Chains: Sly Stone [45] [46] 1943 American musician, songwriter and record producer Patrick Süskind [47] 1949 German writer and screenwriter John Swartzwelder [48] [49] 1949 American comedy writer best known for his work on The Simpsons: Akira Toriyama [50 ...
American artist noted for her portraits and still life paintings [186] Andrew Wyeth: 1917–2009 American regionalist painter and one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century [187] Patricia Hill Burnett: 1920–2014 Portrait artist and women's rights activist [188] Brigid Berlin: 1939–2020 American artist and Warhol superstar ...
The Roman physician Galen mapped the four temperaments (sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholic) to a matrix of hot/cold and dry/wet, taken from the four classical elements. [1] Two of these temperaments, sanguine and choleric, shared a common trait: quickness of response (corresponding to "heat"), while the melancholic and phlegmatic ...
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.