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January 1, 1983 (age 41) Taipei, Taiwan. Political party. Kuomintang. Parent (s) Kuo Su-chun (mother; former legislator) Hung Mong-kai ( Chinese: 洪孟楷; pinyin: Hóng Mèngkǎi; born 1 January 1983) is a Taiwanese politician who sits in the Legislative Yuan, representing the New Taipei City Constituency I. [1]
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was directed by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (/ˈdɑːmər/; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster,[4] was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991.[5] Many of his later murders involved necrophilia,[6] cannibalism, and the permanent ...
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Arnold George Dorsey was born in Madras, British India (now Chennai, India) in 1936, one of 10 children born to British Army NCO Mervyn Dorsey, who was of Welsh descent, and his wife Olive who, according to the singer, was of German descent. Various sources also say that he has Anglo-Indian heritage. His family moved to Leicester, England, when he ...
Changes and "Release Me"
In 1965, Dorsey teamed up with Gordon Mills, his former roommate while in Bayswater, London, who had become a music impresario and the manager of Tom Jones. Mills, aware that the singer had been struggling for several years to become successful in the music industry, suggested a name-change to the more arresting Engelbert Humperdinck, borrowed from the 19th-century German composer of operas such as Hansel and Gretel. Humperdinck enjoyed his first real success during July 1966 in Belgium, wher...
1970s
By the start of the 1970s, Humperdinck had settled into a busy schedule of recordings, and a number of signature songs emerged from this period, often written by noted musicians and songwriters; among them, "We Made It Happen" (written by Paul Anka), "Sweetheart" (written by Barry Gibb and Maurice Gibb), "Another Time, Another Place", and "Too Beautiful to Last" (theme from the film Nicholas and Alexandra). In 1972, he starred in another television series, for BBC 1. Titled Engelbert with The...
1980s and 1990s
In the 1980s, Humperdinck consolidated his discography, recording regularly and performing as many as 200 concerts a year while continuing with headlining appearances in Las Vegas at the Hilton Hotel (Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino). In the early and mid-1980s, he made a number of special appearances as an actor on popular television dramas of the time, including The Love Boat, Hotel and Fantasy Island. Following his stint as a recording artist with Epic, Humperdinck released what William...
Lifelong Catholics Humperdinck and Patricia Healey wed in 1964; the two first met at the Palais de Danse, a nightclub in Leicester.They had four children, and the family lived between homes in the UK and the US. Humperdinck's wife once said that she could paper their bedroom with all of the paternity lawsuits filed against her husband. He was succe...
Claghorn, Charles Eugene. Biographical Dictionary of American Music, Parker Pub. Co., 1974. ISBN 9780130763310Clarke, Donald (ed.). The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Viking, 1989. ISBN 9780670803491Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness Publishing, 1992. ISBN 9780851129396Sadie, Stanley; Hitchcock, H. Wiley (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. ISBN 9780333378793Engelbert Humperdinck at AllMusicEngelbert Humperdinck Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machineat StarpulseRecorded 4 October 1994. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( / mænˈdɛlə / man-DEH-lə; [1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's ...
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Known as the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. During his four-decade career, his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized ...
