Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.
You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
Mary Decker, Athlete (1958) |
Lane Evans, Politician (1951) |
Greta Gerwig, Actress (1983) |
William Rowan Hamilton, Mathematician (1805) |
Knut Hamsun, Author (1859) |
John Harrington, Writer (1561) |
Edward Irving, Clergyman (1792) |
Daniel Dae Kim, Actor (1968) |
Osbert Lancaster, Cartoonist (1908) |
Harry Lauder, Entertainer (1870) |
Hans Christian Andersen, Author (1875) |
John Bacon, Sculptor (1799) |
Jeanne Calment, Celebrity (1997) |
Lord Thomson Of Fleet, Publisher (1976) |
William Floyd, Politician (1821) |