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John Vansant Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing."[1] He sehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wanamakerrved as U.S. Postmaster General. Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wanamaker was born on July 11, 1838, in a then-rural, unincorporated area that would in time come to be known as theGrays Ferry neighborhood of South Philadelphia.[2] His parents were John Nelson Wanamaker, a brickmaker and a native of Kingwood, New Jersey, and Elizabeth Deshong Kochersperger, daughter of a farmer and innkeeper at Gray's Ferry in Philadelphia whose ancestors had hailed from Rittershoffen in Alsace, France and from Canton Bern inSwitzerland.[3] more...... |
John Quincy Adams (i/ˈkwɪnzi/;[a] July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and laterAnti-Masonic and Whig parties.
Quincy Adams was the son of former President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in negotiating key treaties, most notably the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812. As Secretary of State, he negotiated with Britain over the United States' northern border with Canada, negotiated with Spain theannexation of Florida, and drafted the Monroe Doctrine. Historians agree he was one of the greatest diplomats and secretaries of state in American history.[5][6] more....... |
Yul Brynner (born Youl [or Yuliy] Borisovich Briner, Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985)[1] was a Russian-born United States-based film and stage actor.[2]
He was best known for his portrayals of Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille blockbuster The Ten Commandments, and of King Mongkut of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony Awards and an Academy Award for the film version. He played the role 4625 times on stage. Brynner portrayed General Bounine in the 1956 film Anastasia and Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his distinctive voice and for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it in 1951 for his role in The King and I. Earlier, he was a model and television director, and later a photographer and the author of two books.[citation need more....... |
Harry von Zell (July 11, 1906 – November 21, 1981), born in Indianapolis, Indiana, made his mark as an announcer of radio programs and an actor in films and television shows.
After living in Indianapolis, where his father was a sports reporter, von Zell and his family moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where he graduated from high school.[1] Later, the family moved to California, where von Zell studied music and drama at the University of California, Los Angeles and worked at a variety of jobs. After friends tricked him into singing on a radio program, he received offers from radio stations, and his radio career began. Von Zell broke into show business as a singer and announcer at radio station KMIC in Inglewood, California in the mid-1920s. Later, auditioning for Paul Whiteman's radio show in 1929, he beat out 250 other announcers.[1] When that series came to an end in 1930, he headed for New York and became a CBS staff announcer, working with Fred Allen, Phil Baker, Eddie Cantor, Eddy Duchin and Ed Wynn. He also announced for The Aldrich Family, The Amazing Mr. Smith,[2] The March of Time and The Birds Eye Open House with Dinah Shore. An obituary noted, "At times during the 1920s and 1930s von Zell was announcer on as many as 20 shows a week."[1] more....... |
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