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Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [2] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the ...
2. Julie Ellen " Tawny " Kitaen (/ kɪˈteɪn / ki-TAYN; August 5, 1961 – May 7, 2021) was an American actress. She began her career as a television actress, appearing in the television films Malibu (1983) and California Girls (1985). She also starred in the comedies The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak and Bachelor Party (both ...
1989 Barnard Women Poets Prize. Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American poet and academic. She is a professor of English at University of Rochester, and Plutzik Memorial Series director. [1] [2] Her work has appeared in Paris Review, [3] Sulfur, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, [4] Harvard Review .
Orlando Bloom dropped 52 pounds in just three months to play a retired boxer who goes to scary extremes to lose weight in order to compete again in the upcoming drama “The Cut.”. Losing the ...
Previously, she published a book about Barbara Jordan, named Barbara Jordan: American Hero, that was reviewed by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. In 2022, Rogers wrote a memoir called Hope and Hard Truth: A Life in Texas Politics. It was released in September 2022. The memoir was reviewed by Austin Chronicle and Texas Observer.
Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham (Armenian: Արա Վարդգես Դարզի; born 7 May 1960) is an Armenian-British surgeon, academic, and politician.. Lord Darzi is an academic surgeon and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, having pioneered many new techniques and technologies.
Charles Allan Gilbert. Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 – April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator. He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image (or visual pun) in which the scene of a woman admiring ...
Subject. Barbara Jordan. Location. Austin, Texas, United States. Coordinates. 30°17′14.9″N 97°44′26.2″W. / 30.287472°N 97.740611°W / 30.287472; -97.740611. Bruce Wolfe 's statue of Barbara Jordan on the University of Texas at Austin campus was erected in 2009. [1] [2]