Famous & 65
Look Who’s Turning 65
December two – George Meegan
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This incredible British adventurer walked all the agency from the southern tip of South America to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Completing the walk at historic menstruum 31, Meegan took his lastly stair as well as “fell to his knees as well as wept”. That’s an astounding journeying of 19,019 miles from bottom to top of the Western Hemisphere. It lasted 2,425 days as well as is documented inwards his book, The Longest Walk (1988).
His famous walk led Meegan to a lasting involvement inwards indigenous cultures as well as how to learn them to thrive inwards modern social club piece retaining their unique identity. This involvement led Meegan inwards 2014 to author Democracy Reaches the Kids, a free-thinking manifesto against compulsory education.
Meegan’s numerous records include:
- First as well as exclusively journeying on human foot crossing South as well as Central America
- First as well as exclusively journeying on human foot crossing all Latin America
- First as well as exclusively journeying on human foot crossing from Tropic of Capricorn, through the Equator, to the Tropic of Cancer
- First as well as exclusively journeying on human foot crossing betwixt Equator as well as the Arctic Circle
- First as well as exclusively journeying on human foot crossing entire Western Hemisphere
- Most degrees of latitude e'er covered on human foot (125° 08')
- First as well as exclusively journeying on human foot connecting the Southern Atlantic, Pacific, as well as Arctic Oceans
- ‘Longest Unbroken March of All Time’
December two – Carol Shea-Porter
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Shea-Porter is a illustration of New Hampshire’s 1st congressional district, after losing as well as thence regaining the spot several times since 2006. Currently, she serves on the Committee on Education as well as Labor as well as the Committee on Armed Services. She’s also a fellow member of the Progressive Congressional Caucus, merely has announced she won’t run ane time again inwards 2018.
Born inwards New York City, Shea-Porter grew upwards on the New Hampshire seacoast, earning a bachelor’s inwards social services as well as a master’s inwards world direction from the University of New Hampshire. She worked for the Wesley Clark crusade for president as well as volunteered for John Kerry’s presidential run.
Among her notable achievements inwards office, she co-sponsored a mouth to protect U.S. troops inwards Republic of Iraq as well as Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan from toxic smoke created yesteryear the disposal of waste product inwards open-air give the axe pits. Shea-Porter voted for the Affordable Care Act as well as supports a U.S. movement away from fossil oil equally a principal loose energy source. She supports emissions trading measures as well as voted for the American Clean Energy as well as Security Act.
December 3 – Don Barnes
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You may non recognize his name, merely y'all in all likelihood recall the songs such equally “Hold On Loosely,” “Rockin’ into the Night,” as well as “Caught Up inwards You.” Don Barnes is the stone vocalist as well as guitarist who was ane of the founding members of the Southern stone band 38 Special.
Barnes was the Pb vocalist on the hits listed above, equally good equally “If I’d Been the One,” “Back Where You Belong,” as well as “Like No Other Night.” In 1987, Barnes left the band after recording “Back to Paradise” that was featured inwards the forgettable film Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds inwards Paradise. The band replaced him amongst Max Carl. Barnes rejoined 38 Special inwards 1992 as well as has been amongst the band e'er since.
A brief solo career produced the 1989 album Ride the Storm. It wasn’t released at the fourth dimension because the tape label was sold, merely a lot of the top session musicians such equally Jeff Porcaro as well as Dann Huff were featured on it, as well as singer-songwriter Martin Briley co-produced it. The album finally got its debut inwards June 2017 on MelodicRock Records.
December half dozen – Craig Newmark
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What would life live similar without the ad-free spider web marketplace known equally Craigslist? It’s the brainchild of Newmark, whose manful somebody raise died when Craig was 13, putting the trouble solid unit of measurement into a precarious fiscal position. Scholarships funded a bachelor’s as well as master’s grade of science, as well as Newmark landed a chore amongst IBM.
After programming for 17 years, he moved to San Francisco for a chore where he was introduced to the internet, which at the fourth dimension had no advertising. Newmark developed Craigslist equally an “internet commune” where people could come upwards together to telephone commutation data as well as usage a gratis marketplace.
The full general got a top-notch start at the USA Military Academy, graduating inwards the top v per centum of his shape inwards 1974. He thence won the General George C. Marshall Award equally the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command as well as General Staff College shape of 1983. Petraeus went on to earn both an M.P.A. (in 1985) as well as a 1987 Ph. D. inwards international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public as well as International Affairs at Princeton University.
Now a billionaire, Newmark is even thence active inwards Craigslist client service, outing spammers as well as scammers. He’s also a devoted philanthropist, operating Craigconnects to set out charitable organizations. Newmark has a exceptional involvement inwards services for armed services veterans as well as teachers.
December vii – Susan Collins
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Susan Collins currently serves equally the senior U.S. Senator from Maine. She is considered a moderate Republican as well as made headlines inwards July when she refused to back upwards the American Health Care Act, the Republican conception to repeal as well as supersede the Affordable Care Act.
Collins has served equally Chairwoman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging since 2015. She’s known for her long voting streak, reaching 6,000 consecutive votes inwards September 2015. Collins is also the exclusively Republican inwards the Senate currently representing a reason inwards New England.
According to tertiary quarter 2017 senator blessing rankings yesteryear Morning Consult, Collins is fourth-highest amongst 62% giving her a thumbs-up. (Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont ranks first). Collins has voted across political party lines on many issues, including restrictions on move to Cuba, harsher penalty for drug users, as well as an amendment to the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. She also joined Democrats to back upwards crusade finance reform laws.
In August 2016 Collins announced that she would non cast a vote for Donald Trump, stating that he is unsuitable for office, “based on his disregard for the precept of treating others amongst respect, an see that should hand politics.”
December 12 – Cathy Rigby McCoy
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The diminutive Rigby made history equally the highest-scoring gymnast on the U.S. squad at the 1968 Summer Olympics inwards United Mexican States City. The apple-cheeked blonde amongst the quick smiling helped to popularize gymnastics equally a sport amongst American television set audiences. Rigby was the U.S. national champion inwards 1970 as well as 1972, merely injury held her dorsum at the 1972 Olympics as well as she retired after non medaling at that competition.
Rigby was twenty years one-time as well as had been retired from contest for a twelvemonth when she auditioned for the purpose of Peter Pan, which she injure upwards playing for to a greater extent than than xxx years. Her Broadway functioning got her nominated for a Tony award. Rigby starred inwards phase as well as television set productions.
The 99 lb. actress also hitting the verbalise demo circuit as well as became a world speaker virtually eating disorders, which she overcame after a long struggle.
Rigby’s icon is included on the Voyager Golden Record inwards space.
December 27 – David Knopfler
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Knopfler is a co-founder of the stone band Dire Straits, where he was beat guitarist as well as his older blood brother Mark played Pb guitar.
However, Knopfler felt stressed yesteryear the constant album production as well as tour demands when Dire Straits became popular. He quit the band after 3 years to gear upwards out on a solo career, initially creating smaller tape labels, publishing companies as well as indie labels.
Knopfler was ahead of his time, encouraging the buy of online music sales equally early on equally 1995. His majority Bluffers Guide to the Rock Music Business was published a twelvemonth later. H5N1 poesy anthology, “Bloodstones as well as Rhythmic Beasts”, followed inwards 2005.
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