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| x Atlanta |
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Atlanta (pronounced /ətˈlæntə/ or /ætˈlæntə/) is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia, as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States.
With a 2008 estimated population of 537,958...
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| x Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he...
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| x Margaret Mitchell |
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies...
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| x Spike Lee |
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Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
Lee's movies have examined race relations, the...
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| x Steven Soderbergh |
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing the films Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich,...
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| x William Luther Pierce |
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William Luther Pierce III (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and a principal ideologue of the white nationalist movement. First educated as a physicist, he later worked with...
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| x DeForest Kelley |
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Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor known for his iconic roles in Westerns and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.
Kelley was born in Toccoa,...
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| x Wayne Williams |
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Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) was identified as the key suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred in 1979 through 1981. In January 1982, Williams was found guilty of the murder of two adult men. After his conviction, the...
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| x Will Wright |
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William Wright (born January 20, 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts. In April 2009 he left Electronic Arts to run "Stupid Fun Club", an...
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| x Gladys Knight |
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Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the Empress of Soul, is an American R&B;/soul singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author. She is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the...
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| x Brittany Murphy |
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Brittany Murphy (born November 10, 1977) is an American actress and recording artist. She has starred in films such as Just Married, Clueless, Girl, Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City, The Dead Girl, Uptown Girls, Riding in Cars with Boys and Spun.
Born...
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| x JonBenét Ramsey |
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JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996) was an American child beauty pageant queen made famous by her murder and the subsequent media coverage. She was found dead in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado,...
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| x James Dickey |
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James Lafayette Dickey (2 February 1923 – 19 January 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.
Dickey was born to lawyer, Eugene Dickey, and...
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| x Chris Tucker |
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Christopher "Chris" Tucker (born August 31, 1972) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Smokey in the 1995 film Friday and Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy.
Chris Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son...
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| x Jane Barbe |
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Jane Barbe (July 29, 1928(1928-07-29) – July 18, 2003) was an American voice actress known as the “Time Lady” .for the recordings she made for the Bell System and other phone companies.
Barbe, a Florida native who grew up in Atlanta, Georgia,...
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| x Lester Maddox |
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Lester Garfield Maddox (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American Democratic Party politician who was governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist and maintained, to his...
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| x Hulk Hogan |
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Terry Gene Bollea (born August 11, 1953), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is a professional wrestler currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Hogan had mainstream popularity in the mid 1980s through the early 1990s as the all...
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| x Lee Atwater |
Harvey LeRoy "Lee" Atwater (February 27, 1951(1951-02-27) – March 29, 1991) was an American political consultant and strategist to the Republican party. He was an advisor of U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and Chairman of the...
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| x Max Cleland |
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Joseph Maxwell Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous action in combat, a former U...
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| x Joe Scarborough |
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Charles Joseph "Joe" Scarborough (born April 9, 1963) is an American cable news and talk radio host, author, and former politician. He is currently the host of Morning Joe on MSNBC, and previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same channel....
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| x Hannah Storm |
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Hannah Storm (born Hannah Storen on June 13, 1962, in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American television sports journalist, and anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter. From 2002 until 2007, Storm was one of the hosts of CBS' The Early Show.
Storm is the daughter...
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| x Cynthia McKinney |
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Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is a U.S. politician and a member of the Green Party since 2007. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party...
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| x John Hardy Isakson |
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John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28, 1944), is an American politician, who has been the Republican junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2005. Previously, he represented Georgia's 6th Congressional district in the House from 1999...
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| x Bobby Jones |
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Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from...
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| x Linda Garrou |
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Linda Garrou is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's thirty-second Senate district since 1999. Her district includes constituents in Forsyth county. An administrator from Winston-Salem, North Carolina,...
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| x Charles Beckwith |
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Colonel Charles Alvin Beckwith (January 22, 1929 – June 13, 1994), known as "Chargin' Charlie", was a career United States Army soldier and Vietnam veteran, credited with the creation of Delta Force, a branch of the U.S. Army. Although he is held in...
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| x Dwight Howard |
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Dwight David Howard (born December 8, 1985), nicknamed "Superman", is an American basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Howard, who usually plays center but can also play power forward, had an...
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| x Louis Wade Sullivan |
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Louis Wade Sullivan (born November 3, 1933) is an American physician and businessman. He served as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President George H. W. Bush and founded the Morehouse School of Medicine....
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| x Kanye West |
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Kanye Omari West (pronounced /ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, record producer, and actor. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's...
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| x Clare Kramer |
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Clare Elizabeth Kramer (born September 3, 1974) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Glory, the main villain in Season 5 of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Kramer spent most of her childhood in...
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| x Roy D. Bridges, Jr. |
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Roy Dubard Bridges, Jr. (born July 19, 1943, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American aviator, a retired U.S Air Force officer, the former director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and a former NASA astronaut.
Bridges served as a NASA astronaut,...
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| x Larry McDonald |
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Lawrence Patton McDonald, M.D. (April 1, 1935 – September 1, 1983) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the seventh congressional district of Georgia as a Democrat. He was a passenger on...
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| x André 3000 |
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André Lauren Benjamin (born May 27, 1975), better known by his stage name André 3000 (and sometimes simply Dre), is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, best known for his work in the group OutKast.
Benjamin was...
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| x Kenan Thompson |
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Kenan Thompson (born May 10, 1978) is an American actor and comedian who is currently a cast member of Saturday Night Live. He is also known for his titular role in Fat Albert, for starring as Kenan Rockmore in the sitcom Kenan & Kel, and as a...
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| x Hamilton E. Holmes |
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Hamilton E. Holmes (8 July 1941 – 26 October 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Additionally, Holmes was the first African...
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| x Pat Conroy |
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Pat Conroy (born 26 October 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia USA), is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs.
Born Donald Patrick Conroy, he was the eldest of seven children (five boys and two girls) born to...
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| x Marquis Grissom |
Marquis Deon Grissom, nicknamed "Grip" (first name pronounced /mɑrˈkiːs/) (born April 17, 1967 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former Major League Baseball player who is currently the first base coach for the Washington Nationals. He excelled in baseball...
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| x Stephen Dorff |
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Stephen Dorff (born July 29, 1973) is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented.
Dorff was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Nancy and Steve Dorff, who is a composer...
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| x Alicia Leigh Willis |
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Alicia Leigh Willis (born March 1, 1978) is an American actress. She is best known for Soap Operas.
Alicia was born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. She is one of four children. Sisters Kimberly and Tiffany, and brother Ryan. Her father is actor...
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| x Raven-Symoné |
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Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman (born December 10, 1985), known professionally as Raven-Symoné or Raven, is an American actress, singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and television producer. She is best known for her television roles as Olivia...
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| x Bill Terry |
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William Harold Terry (October 30, 1898 - January 9, 1989) was a Major League Baseball first baseman and manager. Considered one of the greatest players of all time, Terry was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. In 1999, he ranked number...
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| x Kristin Hersh |
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Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also has performed as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and currently leads the hardcore punk-influenced...
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| x Steve Whitmire |
Steve Whitmire (born September 24, 1959) is a puppeteer who works with The Jim Henson Company and Sesame Workshop. He has been the performer of two signature Muppets - Kermit the Frog and Sesame Street's Ernie - since the passing of their creator,...
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| x Barry Van Dyke |
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Barry Van Dyke (born July 31, 1951) is an American actor and the second son of actor and entertainer, Dick Van Dyke, and nephew of Jerry Van Dyke. He has one older brother, Christian, and two younger sisters, Stacy and Carrie Beth. He is best-known...
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| x Latanya Richardson |
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Latanya Richardson (born October 21, 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actress. She graduated from Spelman College in 1974. While at Spelman, she met Samuel L. Jackson who would later become her husband. She and Jackson married in 1981 and...
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| x Alan Ball |
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Alan E. Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer, director, actor and producer for film, theatre and television. He is noted for writing the film American Beauty, and creating and producing the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and True Blood....
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| x Wyche Fowler |
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William Wyche Fowler, Jr. (born October 6, 1940) is an American politician and ambassador. He is a member of the Democratic Party and served as U.S. Senator from Georgia from January 1987 to January 1993. He had previously served in the U.S. House...
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| x Adam Nelson |
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Adam Nelson (born July 7, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an elite American shotputter. A 1997 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Nelson has competed in two Olympic Games. In 1996, Nelson worked at a concession stand during the...
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| x Carl Epting Mundy Jr. |
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Carl Epting Mundy, Jr. (born July 16, 1935) is a retired United States Marine Corps general who was the thirtieth Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 1, 1991 until his retirement on June 30,...
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| x Eric Chouinard |
Éric Chouinard (born on July 8, 1980, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey player and the son of former Atlanta Flames star Guy Chouinard.
Chouinard took a more intriguing path to the National Hockey League than...
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| x David H. Gambrell |
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David Henry Gambrell is a Georgia attorney who represented his state in the United States Senate from 1971 through 1972.
Gambrell was born in Atlanta, GA, on December 20, 1929. He graduated from Davidson College in 1949, and received his JD, with...
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| x Corey Patterson |
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Donald Corey Patterson (August 13, 1979) is a Major League Baseball center fielder for the Seattle Mariners organization. He is the older brother of Oakland Athletics outfielder Eric Patterson.
Patterson attended Harrison High School in Kennesaw,...
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| x Brock Adams |
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Brockman "Brock" Adams (January 13, 1927 – September 10, 2004) was an American politician and member of Congress. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before...
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| x John Hugger |
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John Hugger (born April 20, 1977) is a American professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling as Johnny the Bull, World Wrestling Entertainment as Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, and Total Nonstop...
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| x Kyle Martino |
Kyle Martino (born February 19, 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired American soccer player.
Martino played college soccer at the University of Virginia from 1999 to 2001, registering 17 goals and 21 assists in his three years. In his junior...
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| x Wally Joyner |
Wallace Keith "Wally" Joyner (born June 16, 1962 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former first baseman and hitting coach in Major League Baseball. He played for four major league teams during a 16-year career, most notably for the California Angels, for...
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| x Ben Lyon |
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Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted...
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| x Ricardo Clark |
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Ricardo Clark (born February 10, 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer.
Clark attended St. Pius X Catholic High School in Atlanta, Georgia, and played college soccer at...
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| x Tucker Max |
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Tucker Tibor Max (b. September 27, 1975, Atlanta, Georgia) is an American blogger and writer. He chronicles his drunken and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has reportedly received millions of...
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| x Sean Garrett |
Garrett Hamler, better known by his stage name Sean Garrett is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.
Garrett is responsible for a series of chart-topping compositions, most notably Usher's "Yeah!", Ciara's breakout track "Goodies"...
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