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...first name a variation on the Arabic word for joy) was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. Voted Best Looking at her high school, she studied microbiology, then art, at the University of Texas, Austin. In Hollywood she got her first big role in the calamitous 1970 satire Myra Breckinridge, escaping unscathed and, for the most part, unnoticed. Until she was signed in 1976 for the ABC series Charlie's Angels, Fawcett was most visible as an icon of TV commercials: she made the Mercury Cougar pant and gave extra body to Wella Balsam shampoo. For Ultra-Brite Toothpaste...
...opportunity to seek support and advice from members of the Harvard community at various stages of their professional careers.”“In any other social circumstance, you don’t always meet someone who becomes a lifelong friend or mentor,” said Myra A. Mayman, who served as Cabot House Master from 1984 to 1988, referencing the expectation that the SCR might foster lasting faculty-student relationships. Yet a majority of students and SCR-affiliated members of the Harvard community alike said this goal remains largely unfulfilled. They pointed to a lack...
circa 280 A.D.Nicholas is born in Patara, Lycia - part of modern day Turkey. Like others of the Emperor Constantine generation, he enters a life of religious servitude. He works his way up from abbot to the archbishop of Myra - a nearby town - and gets his first nickname: Nicholas of Myra...
...Nicholas dies and is buried in Myra...
...What was really impressive was how curious and friendly virtually everyone was. We were immediately identified wherever we went, and people would just throng around us,” said Ramos, originally Myra M. Bergman...