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Bennett Ratliff
Bennett Ratliff (born August 18, 1961)[1] is a civil engineer and small business owner in Coppell, Texas , and served as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 115 in Dallas County in the 83rd Session.[2] Born in Fort Worth, Ratliff is a son of former State Senator and Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant in Titus County in northeastern Texas. Hi
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Avery Fisher
Avery Robert Fisher (March 4, 1906 – February 26, 1994) was an amateur violinist, pioneer in the field of sound reproduction, and founder of once prestigious Fisher Electronics. He served on the board for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the New York Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Marlboro Festival. He also established the Avery Fisher Artist Program that
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Wayne Smith
Richard Wayne Smith, known as Wayne Smith (born August 17, 1943),[1] commonly known as Wayne Smith, is a former seven-term Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 128. He was first elected in November 2002 and served until January 2017.[2] On May 24, 2016, Smith was unseated by 23 votes in the Republican runoff election by Briscoe Cain, 3,050 (50.2%) to 3,027 (49.8%
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Quentin Dastugue
Quentin D. Dastugue (born December 31, 1955) is a founding partner and the chief executive officer of the New Orleans-based real estate firm Property One, Inc., and a former four-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Dastugue (pronounced DAS TOOG) was elected as a Democrat to the state House in 1979 and 1983 as the District 82 representative for suburban Jefferson Parish. In 198
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Pat Olsen
Carl Edwin "Pat" Olsen (August 3, 1902 – May 11, 2000) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He played college baseball at Texas A&M University and was briefly with the New York Yankees organization. He founded a manufacturing and oil exploration company after leaving baseball. Olsen financially supported Texas A&M, his hometown of Clifton, Texas and Major League Baseball.
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Jim Bell
James Dalton Bell (born 1958) is an American crypto-anarchist who created the idea of arranging for anonymously sponsored assassination payments via the Internet, which he called "assassination politics".[1] He was imprisoned on felony charges of tax evasion in 1997.[1] In 2001, Wired called Bell "one of the Internet's most famous essayists"[2] and "the world's most notorious crypto-convict".[3]
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Jack McAuliffe
John R. "Jack" McAuliffe (born 1945) is an American brewer best known as the founder of the New Albion Brewing Company in Sonoma, California. McAuliffe started the brewery, considered the first American microbrewery in the modern era, in 1976.[1][2] (As of 2013), he lives in Arkansas.[3] McAuliffe was born on May 11, 1945 Caracas, Venezuela. His father, John McAuliffe, intercepted and transla
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James Heppelmann
James E. Heppelmann (born September 4, 1964) [1] is an American engineer and businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of PTC (software company) (formerly Parametric Technology) a multinational software company he joined in January of 1998 as Senior Vice President Windchill, Parametric Technology Corp. Heppelmann grew up in rural Minnesota on a small dairy farm with his seven sibli
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Edward J. Wasp
Edward J. Wasp, also known as E. J. Wasp, is an engineer and inventor known for developing long distance slurry pipelines for the transportation of coal and other solid materials. Wasp, born in New York City, earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Cooper Union, a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He began ex
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Linda Griffith
Linda G. Griffith (born August 30, 1960 Atlanta, Georgia) is an American biological engineer, and Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also directs the Center for Gynepathology Research.[1] She is a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as the "MacArthur genius award."[2] She was raised in D
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