Michael Jordan
Born: 17 February 1963
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Best Known As: The world's most famous basketball player
Michael Jordan is the best-known player in the history of professional basketball. He won the NBA's Most Valuable Player award five times, and six times led the Chicago Bulls to the league championship. In October of 1993 Jordan retired from basketball and began a professional baseball career, saying that playing baseball had been an early dream of his. He played the 1994 baseball season for the minor league Birmingham Barons. In March of 1995 he ended his baseball career and returned to the Bulls. With Jordan, the Bulls won championships in 1996, 1997 and 1998. He retired from basketball in 1999. In the year 2000 he became a part owner and executive for the NBA's Washington Wizards. In 2001 Jordan began considering another comeback as an NBA player, and that fall, at age 38, he returned once again to play for the Wizards. He played for two more full seasons, retiring again in April of 2003.
Jordan's uniform number is 23... Jordan's wife of 12 years, Juanita, filed for divorce and asked for custody of their three children in January 2002... Jordan starred with Bugs Bunny in the 1996 feature film Space Jam... Other NBA stars on Who2 include Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant, Bill Bradley and Dr. J.
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Mike Myers
Michael Stanley Myers (born June 26, 1969 in Arlington Heights, Illinois) is a left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball.
Trough the 2004, Myers has compiled a 17-21 record with 14 saves and a 4.40 ERA in 684 appearances (leading all major league pitchers since 1996).
Originally drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the fourth round in 1990 out of Iowa State University, Myers has pitched for the Florida Marlins (1995), Detroit Tigers (1995-97), Milwaukee Brewers (1998-99), Colorado Rockies (2000-01), Arizona Diamondbacks (2002-03), Seattle Mariners (2004[start]) and Boston Red Sox (2004[end]-present).
Myers, a left-handed specialist with a submarine delivery, throws two different breaking balls with a deceptive movement that disconcerts opposite hitters (especially left-handed ones). He appeared in more games (684) than any pitcher in the majors since 1996 (his first full major league season) to 2004. In the same period he pitched in at least 64 games, topping 70 appearances in six of eight seasons. With Detroit, he led twice the majors with 83 appearances in 1996 and, in 1997, in 88 games, two shy of the American League record.
Acquired from Seattle by the Red Sox for the stretch run in the 2004 season, Myers would be a short-timer in Boston, which did not re-sign him. A free agent, Myers signed with St. Louis, but was shipped back to Boston for two minor leaguers on March 29, 2005.
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Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was the pseudonym of French novelist, Marguerite de Crayencour (June 8, 1903 - December 17, 1987). Yourcenar was born in Brussels, Belgium, and educated privately to a prodigious standard. She read Racine and Aristophanes by the age of eight and her father taught her Latin at ten, and Greek at twelve.
Her first novel Alexis was published in 1929. Her intimate friend and companion, the translator Grace Frick invited her to America, where she lectured in comparative literature in New York City. In 1951 she published, in France, the French-language novel Mémoires d'Hadrien (translated as Hadrian's Memoirs), which she had been writing with pauses for a decade. The novel was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaim. In this novel Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, his successor and adoptive son. The Emperor meditates on his past, describes his triumphs and love for Antinous, his philosophy. This novel has become a modern classic, a standard against which fictional recreations of Antiquity are measured.
Yourcenar was elected as the first woman to the Academie Française. One of the respected writers in French language, she published many novels, essays, poetry, and three volumes of memoirs.
Yourcenar lived much of her life at Petite Plaisance in Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Petite Plaisance is now a museum dedicated to her memory.
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