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		<title>Ron Asheton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asheton was the guitarist and co-songwriter with Iggy Pop for the band The Stooges. He held that role for their first two albums, and later appeared as the bassist for their third, Raw Power.
Separate from The Stooges, Ashetom also played roles in other bands such as The New Order, Destroy All Monsters, New Race, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Asheton was the guitarist and co-songwriter with Iggy Pop for the band The Stooges. He held that role for their first two albums, and later appeared as the bassist for their third, Raw Power.</p>
<p>Separate from The Stooges, Ashetom also played roles in other bands such as The New Order, Destroy All Monsters, New Race, and recently worked with various artists on the soundtrack for the Todd Haynes film Velvet Goldmine.</p>
<p>Asheton is the 29th Greatest Guitarist of All Time, according Rolling Stone.</p>
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		<title>Carl Pohlad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pohlad was a successful financier and owner of the Minnesota Twins.
He bought the team back in 1984, and just three years later (1987) the Twins won the World Series and proceeded to win it again in 1991.
Pohlad claims that he came close to selling the team in 1997, which would’ve seen the team move to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pohlad was a successful financier and owner of the Minnesota Twins.</p>
<p>He bought the team back in 1984, and just three years later (1987) the Twins won the World Series and proceeded to win it again in 1991.</p>
<p>Pohlad claims that he came close to selling the team in 1997, which would’ve seen the team move to North Carolina, but the deal fell through with lack of interest from the area.</p>
<p>Pohald was also a partial owner of the Minnesota Vikings from the mid 1980’s to 1991.</p>
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		<title>Jett Travolta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jett, born on April 13, 1992, was the only son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston.
Early in childhood Jett suffered from Kawasaki disease that caused seizures at random times.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jett, born on April 13, 1992, was the only son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston.</p>
<p>Early in childhood Jett suffered from Kawasaki disease that caused seizures at random times.</p>
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		<title>Pat Hingle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hingle was a veteran actor for more than fifty years in film, theater, and television. He is probably most known for this role of Commissioner James Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and it’s three sequels.
Recently he appeared in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the original owner of Dennit Racing.
Some of his [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hingle was a veteran actor for more than fifty years in film, theater, and television. He is probably most known for this role of Commissioner James Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and it’s three sequels.</p>
<p>Recently he appeared in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the original owner of Dennit Racing.</p>
<p>Some of his movie credits include Hang ‘Em High, Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, Muppets from Space and the Shaft remake in 2000.</p>
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		<title>Eartha Kitt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kitt was an actress, singer and cabaret star. She is probably best known for her 1953 Christmas song “Santa Baby”.
In the 1960s she replaced Julie Newmar in the role of Catwoman for the third and final season of the Batman TV series.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kitt was an actress, singer and cabaret star. She is probably best known for her 1953 Christmas song “Santa Baby”.</p>
<p>In the 1960s she replaced Julie Newmar in the role of Catwoman for the third and final season of the Batman TV series.</p>
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		<title>W. Mark Felt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felt was an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he is most famous for being the Watergate scandal whistleblower called “Deep Throat”.
Felt (Deep Throat) was leaking information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads to the story that eventually saw the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Deep Throat remained a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Felt was an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he is most famous for being the Watergate scandal whistleblower called “Deep Throat”.</p>
<p>Felt (Deep Throat) was leaking information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads to the story that eventually saw the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.</p>
<p>Deep Throat remained a mystery for thirty years, until Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005 as the whistleblower.</p>
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		<title>Sunny von Bülow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunny von Bülow was a socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. Sadly, she is probably best remembered for her husband, Claus von Bülow, supposedly trying to murder her.
On December 26, 1979 Sunny was found to be unresponsive and was rushed to the hospital where he slipped into a coma, but she was revived. After vast amounts of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sunny von Bülow was a socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. Sadly, she is probably best remembered for her husband, Claus von Bülow, supposedly trying to murder her.</p>
<p>On December 26, 1979 Sunny was found to be unresponsive and was rushed to the hospital where he slipped into a coma, but she was revived. After vast amounts of testing doctors found out that she was hypoglycemic, and warned her not to overindulge on sweets, go long periods without eating, and avoiding alcohol. No foul play was suspected, but later Claus was accused of causing the incident by injecting his wife with insulin.</p>
<p>In April 1980 Sunny was hospitalized yet again after she was found incoherent and disoriented. Three doctors confirmed that she suffered from “reactive hypoglycemia”.</p>
<p>Around Christmas of that same year, December 21, 1980, Sunny was celebrating with her family, she soon starting showing signs of confusion and un-coordination. Her family put her to bed, thinking she just needed rest. The next morning the family realized that she was even deeper unconscious now and was rushed to the hospital. It was found that she suffered a server enough brain injury to produce a persistent vegetative state.</p>
<p>Due to the ongoing marital problems with Claus and Sunny, her children became suspicious that her brain injury was a result of Claus somehow. The two eldest children persuaded Richard H. Kuh, former New York County District Attorney, to investigate their claims. After gathering evidence for sometime the Rhode Island prosecutors presented their case to the grand jury. In July 1981 Claus was charged with two counts of attempted murder.</p>
<p>The trial began in February 1982 with many individuals giving testimonies; probably the one that did it in for Claus was Harvard endocrinologist George Cahill. He testified that he was convinced that her brain damage was the result of injected insulin. The jury was convinced and Claus was convicted.</p>
<p>For the appeal process Claus hired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz (OJ Simpson murder trial fame) to help argue his case. They wanted to show that Sunny was an excessive drug user, their case included testimony from both Truman Capote and Joanne Carson (second wife of Johnny Carson).</p>
<p>Claus was acquitted at his second trial in July 1985, shortly after her kids filed a $56 million dollar civil lawsuit on their mother’s behalf. On December 24, 1987 the case was settled out of court when Claus agreed to divorce Sunny, relinquishing his claim to the family fortune, and leave the country for good.</p>
<p>After the circus from the trials and appeals was over, Sunny’s children founded the Sunny von Bulow National Victim Advocacy Center in Fort Worth Texas and the Sunny von Bulow Coma and Head Trauma Research Foundation in New York.</p>
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		<title>Beverly Garland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garland was a businesswoman, hotel owner, and actress. She is probably best known for playing Red MacMurray’s second wife, Barbara Harper Douglas, on the long running sitcom My Three Sons.
Her long television career saw her on shows such as the Twilight Zone, Remington Steele, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Gunsmoke, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Lois [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Garland was a businesswoman, hotel owner, and actress. She is probably best known for playing Red MacMurray’s second wife, Barbara Harper Douglas, on the long running sitcom My Three Sons.</p>
<p>Her long television career saw her on shows such as the Twilight Zone, Remington Steele, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Gunsmoke, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and 7th Heaven.</p>
<p>For her contribution to the business, Garland was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.</p>
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		<title>Patriarch Alexy II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexey was the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and of All-Russia and the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
He was chosen to become the new Patriarch of The Russian Orthodox Church after the death of Patriarch Pimen I in 1990. Archbishishop Chrysostom (Martyshkin) told why Alexey was selected, &#8220;With his peaceful and tolerant disposition Patriarch Aleksi [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alexey was the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and of All-Russia and the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.</p>
<p>He was chosen to become the new Patriarch of The Russian Orthodox Church after the death of Patriarch Pimen I in 1990. Archbishishop Chrysostom (Martyshkin) told why Alexey was selected, &#8220;With his peaceful and tolerant disposition Patriarch Aleksi will be able to unite us all.&#8221;</p>
<p>It’s often alleged that Alexey had been a KGB (Committee for State Security) agent, going by the code name DROZDOV. Some believe that he was just an honorary member, given the status by the KGB chairman in 1988.</p>
<p>On April 27, 2007 it was reported by some Russian media that Alexey was in serious condition, some even reported his death. This was proven to be a hoax, in hopes to upset the reconciliation of the Russian Church inside of Russia with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Alexy was quoted as saying, “As you can see, I&#8217;m healthy, I&#8217;m serving, I&#8217;m alive”.</p>
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		<title>Odetta</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was an African-American songwriter, guitarist, actress, singer, and most notable a civil rights activist. She is often referred to as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement”.
Her style of music was mainly American folk music, jazz, blues and spiritual songs. It’s been noted that her style influenced Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She was an African-American songwriter, guitarist, actress, singer, and most notable a civil rights activist. She is often referred to as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement”.</p>
<p>Her style of music was mainly American folk music, jazz, blues and spiritual songs. It’s been noted that her style influenced Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan.</p>
<p>Dylan was even quoted as saying; “The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta. I heard a record of hers (Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues) in a record store, back when you could listen to records right there in the store. Right then and there, I went out and traded my electric guitar and amplifier for an acoustical guitar, a flat-top Gibson. &#8230; (That album was) just something vital and personal. I learned all the songs on that record. It was her first and the songs were- &#8216;Mule Skinner&#8217;, &#8216;Waterboy&#8217;, &#8216;Jack of Diamonds&#8217;, &#8221;Buked and Scorned&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
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