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Maya Lakshmi Harris was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and Montreal, Quebec.She is the younger daughter of Shyamala Gopalan Harris (1938–2009), a breast cancer researcher who emigrated from Madras (now known as Chennai), India, in 1960; and Donald Harris, a Jamaican-born Stanford University economics professor, now emeritus. [2]
In terms of innings, West Indian Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara are the fastest (195) to reach the 10,000 run mark, while Australia's Steve Waugh is the slowest to achieve the feat (244). [ 7] England's Joe Root is the fastest in terms of time span, taking 9 years and 174 days, while West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul 's time ...
Władziu Valentino Liberace[ nb 1] (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. [ 2] He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to ...
Touch ( Icelandic: Snerting) is a 2024 romantic drama film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, written by Baltasar [ a] and Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, [ 3] and starring Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, and Palmi Kormakur. [ 4][ 5] The film is based on Ólafur's [ b] 2022 novel of the same name. [ 6] It It is an international co-production between Iceland ...
List of. Kojak. episodes. This is a list of episodes for the television series Kojak . The first five seasons ( Pilot + 118 ep.) were aired on CBS from 1973 until 1978. CBS also commissioned a pair of TV movies in 1985 and 1987. ABC revived Kojak in 1989 for five additional TV movies, the last of which aired in 1990.
Humphrey Bogart. Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( / ˈboʊɡɑːrt / BOH-gart; [ 1] December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor colloquially nicknamed Bogie. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. [ 2] In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of ...
Seattle (/ s i ˈ æ t əl / ⓘ see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.It is the seat of King County, Washington.With a 2023 population of 755,078 [2] it is the most populous city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and the 18th-most populous city in the United States.
Alice Ann Munro ( / mənˈroʊ /; née Laidlaw / ˈleɪdlɔː /; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles . Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern ...