The Name Game - Chapter 3

[1stwahine]

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Bulaia, Kaui Hill, Hawaiian Entertainer, Comedian, Ran foa Governor

[localgrl]

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Hill Harper - an accomplished film, television and stage actor (Shanghai Hotel, CSI: NY, The Twilight Zone - Shades of Guilt

[Adri]

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Anita Hill (perhaps best known in connection with Clarence Thomas, sadly)

[Pua'i Mana'o]

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Anita Baker

best known for singing like a man.

[Leo Lakio]

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Anita Baker

best known for singing like a man.

I hope you mean that as a compliment. I enjoy her singing greatly, though I sometimes question her choices of material. On some levels, she reminds me of Dinah Washington.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

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its not even an observation. I have heard that phrase attributed to her many times over the years, and she herself has remarked publically that people think she sings like a man. Its a buzzclip that I remember, is all.

[1stwahine]

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Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 - April 6, 2003) was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois, She grew up in Palatine, Illinois, Kaneohe, Hawaii, and Mukilteo, Washington.

Anita Borg was the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT). Beginning in, it was supported and funded by Xerox. Her goals for the institute were threefold:

*bring nontechnical women into the design process
*encourage more women to become scientists
*and help the industry, academia, and the government accelerate these changes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg

[Leo Lakio]

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Anita Borg

So...who's gonna make the Star Trek joke? Resistance is futile, you know.

[IslandMystic]

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Bjorn Borg - Swedish Tennis star

[localgrl]

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Veda Ann Borg - a New York model in 1936 and an actress

[1stwahine]

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Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer, better known as Ann Landers (July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), was best known for writing the famous syndicated advice column "Ann Landers." For some 45 years, it was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America.

[localgrl]

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Mark D. Landers - Dr. in Pinehurst, North Carolina and specializes in Cardiology, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Internal Medicine

[1stwahine]

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Mark Twain - American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910

[localgrl]

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Shania Twain (well known singer) - Once known as Eileen Twain, Shania was urged to change her name. Because of her loyalty to her family's origin, she chose her Ojibwa name, Shania (pronounced shu-NYE-uh), but kept Twain as her last name. Shania has a museum created in her honor in hometown Timmin, Ontario.

[1stwahine]

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Jerry Twain - He adopted Eilleen Regina Edwards who later became "Shania Twain." http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/bio/shania_twain.shtml