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Brooke Hyland was born as Brooke Marie Hyland to Kelly and Randy Hyland on January 30, 1998 in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a dancer on the Lifetime hit reality television show "Dance Moms", last appearing in Season 4. She danced on the show with her sister Paige. Brooke also has a younger brother named Josh. She also sings and has released her only album "Brooke Hyland". Brooke began dancing at ALDC when she was 2 years old. She left ALDC in 2014.- Paige Hyland was born as Paige Mackenzie Hyland on November 1, 2000 to Kelly and Randy Hyland in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a former dancer at the Abby Lee Dance Company and starred on the hit lifetime reality series "Dance Moms" until Season 4. She danced at the studio with her older sister, Brooke until they left ALDC in 2014. She also has an older brother named Josh. Her best friends are Chloe Lukasiak and Nia Frazier, who also danced with her. As well as dancing, Paige also likes to do modeling and auditioned for a television show alongside Chloe.
- George Washington was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led the Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as the president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created the Constitution of the United States and the American federal government. Washington has been called the "Father of the Nation" for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the country.
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James Monroe was born on 28 April 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA. He was a writer. He was married to Elizabeth Kortright. He died on 4 July 1831 in New York City, New York, USA.- Director
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Frank Wiziarde was born on 25 July 1916 in Westmoreland, Kansas, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Santa's Christmas Circus (1966). He died in September 1987.- Producer
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Owen Bradley was born on 21 October 1915 in Westmoreland, Tennessee, USA. Owen was a producer, known for The Porter Wagoner Show (1961) and Country Style, U.S.A. (1957). Owen died on 7 January 1998 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Mark Matthews was born on 5 March 1951 in Westmoreland, Kansas, USA. He died on 28 August 1999 in Joplin, Missouri, USA.
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Al Gurst was born on 12 February 2002 in Frick Hospital, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Fallen Kingdom (2012), The Band (2012) and Revenge (2012).- Editor
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Walter Balderson was born on 19 September 1926 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA. He was an editor, known for NBC: The First Fifty Years (1976) and The Huntley-Brinkley Report (1956). He died on 29 July 2023 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.- Born to George E. and Jean Cooper Eisenhauer in Armbrust, Westmoreland Country, he grew up singing while his mother played piano to make money during the Depression. When at age five he played a wooden soldier in a show at Syria Mosque, he knew he was meant to be a performer.
As a student at Oliver High School, Mr. Eisenhauer signed on for a 15-minute show at WWSW called "Evening Melodies" and worked a replacement stint at KDKA for a vacationing vocalist.
After high school, he served in the Navy on the battleship USS Massachusetts in the Pacific theater.
Following the war, he attended Carnegie Tech to study dramatics and music, and after two years, he decided to continue his studies at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. He completed the course in Acting Technique from the Playhouse School of the Theater in 1949.
In that same year, he received a call from the station manager at WDTV, the DuMont television station that was sold a few years later to Westinghouse and changed to KDKA. When the manager offered him a position as an announcer, Mr. Eisenhauer told him he had no experience announcing, but the manager liked his voice.
By the next day he was speaking as the first staff announcer hired in Pittsburgh television.
In those first few years, he wore many hats at the television station, and did everything from announcing and singing to acting and publicity.
"I was just starting my career so I knew it was important to learn all I could," Mr. Eisenhauer said in a 1978 article in The Advertiser.
In 1954, the year before WDTV changed to KDKA, Mr. Eisenhauer was promoted to staff announcer and later, to senior announcer. At that time, every element of the broadcast was live, and Mr. Eisenhauer voiced the station breaks every 15 and 30 minutes and on the hour.
He also spoke commercial announcements, such as Kaufmann's, Giant Eagle and the Pittsburgh Symphony, and he narrated the nationally syndicated "MGM Family Theater."
Mr. Eisenhauer appeared on camera when he hosted the Friday night show, "The 13th Hour," which featured horror movies, and "Not Just Sunday," a talk show for which he interviewed religious personalities who were visiting Pittsburgh. Among the guests on the latter show were Coretta Scott King and Billy Graham.
A seasoned actor, Mr. Eisenhauer performed in numerous community productions at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, the White Barn, and the Odd Chair Playhouse.
In addition to his rich speaking voice, Mr. Eisenhauer had a talented baritone singing voice, and he sang on his KDKA show, "Music for Meditation," on the annual Children's Hospital holiday program, and in the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Choir.
Mr. Eisenhauer's singing prowess won him a spot in the finals on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout Show, but he only tried out on a whim and refused to go to New York for the finals.
Mr. Eisenhauer retired in 1987 to spend more time with his 11-month-old son. - After school, he enrolled in college in 1774, but dropped out two years later at the start of the American Revolution to join the Virginia Army. During the fighting, Monroe was wounded and promoted to major. In 1782, Monroe began studying law and became friends with Thomas Jefferson. With this he was represented in Virginia's delegation to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1786. During this time, Monroe married Elizabeth Kortright.
After practicing law for several years, Monroe was elected to the Senate in 1790. In this role, together with James Madison and Jefferson, he organized the opposition to President George Washington, which eventually developed into the Republican Party. From 1794 to 1796, Monroe served as an envoy to revolutionary France. In 1799 he was elevated to governor of Virginia. In this role he helped suppress a slave rebellion the following year.
In 1803, Monroe was again in diplomatic service in France, where he negotiated the American purchase of Louisiana with Robert R. Livingston. From 1804 to 1807 he served as an envoy to Great Britain. In 1811, under James Madison's presidency, Monroe was appointed Secretary of State. During the military conflict with Great Britain in 1814/15 he also served as Minister of War. As a Republican candidate, Monroe won the presidential election in 1816.
During his double term in office from 1817 to 1825, he developed a policy of internal consolidation that included expanding the army, strengthening the US Bank and enforcing protectionism. During his presidency, he established the "Era of Good Feeling", which was based on restoring political harmony and overcoming partisan differences. The president's power of integration was expressed in the elections of 1820, in which Monroe received all the votes unopposed.
In the area of foreign policy, Monroe was able to claim Florida in 1819. On the question of recognizing the independent Latin American states, the US President took an independent position vis-à-vis the major European powers. In his annual address of December 2, 1823, Monroe rejected any European intervention in Latin America to restore Spanish dominance. He also reiterated the United States' intention not to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations.
This foreign policy program, then known as the "Monroe Doctrine," was to determine the isolationist and hegemonic course of US foreign policy for a long time. After Monroe left the presidency in 1825, he became involved with the University of Virginia. In 1829 he attended the Virginia Constitutional Convention with James Madison.
James Monroe died on July 4, 1831 in New York City. - Actress
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Lois Verner was born on 12 November 1926 in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Girls Under 21 (1940) and Romance in the Dark (1938). She died on 19 February 2003 in Westmoreland, County, Pennsylvania, USA.- Soundtrack
Scotty was born in 1951 in Westmoreland, Jamaica. Scotty died on 27 February 2003 in Kingston, Jamaica.- Delroy Washington was born on 5 November 1952 in Westmoreland, Jamaica. He died on 27 March 2020 in London, England, UK.