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Theodore Samuel Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career,primarily as a left fielder,for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960;his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. Nicknamed "Teddy Ballgame","the Kid","the Splendid Splinter",and "the Thumper",Williams is regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history and to date is the last player to hit over .400 in a season. His .482 on-base percentage is the highest of all time.
Robert Peter Williams is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995,launching a solo career in 1996. His debut studio album,Life thru a Lens,was released in 1997,and included his signature song "Angels". His second album,I've Been Expecting You,featured the songs "Millennium" and "She's the One",his first number one singles. His discography includes seven UK No. 1 singles,and all but one of his 14 studio albums have reached No. 1 in the UK. Six of his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the UK,with two of them in the top 60,and he gained a Guinness World Record in 2006 for selling 1.6 million tickets in a single day during his Close Encounters Tour.
The Temptations are an American vocal group from Detroit,Michigan,who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s to mid 1970s. The group's work with producer Norman Whitfield,beginning with the Top 10 hit single "Cloud Nine" in October 1968,pioneered psychedelic soul,and was significant in the evolution of R&B and soul music. The band members are known for their choreography,distinct harmonies,and dress style. Having sold tens of millions of albums,the Temptations are among the most successful groups in popular music.
The Platters are an American vocal group formed in 1952. They are one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound bridges the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the new burgeoning genre. The act has gone through multiple line-ups over the years,earning it the branding tag "Many Voices One Name",with the most successful incarnation comprising lead tenor Tony Williams,David Lynch,Paul Robi,founder and naming member Herb Reed,and Zola Taylor. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1967,including four number-one hits. In 1990,the Platters were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Platters continue to perform around the world with Herb Reed Enterprises owning the rights and trademark to the name.
Paul Williams was an American baritone singer. He was noted for being one of the founding members and original lead singer of the Motown group the Temptations. Along with Elbridge "Al" Bryant,Otis Williams,and fellow Alabamians Eddie Kendricks and Melvin Franklin,Williams was a member of the Temptations.
Billy Leo Williams is an American former left fielder and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played from 1959 to 1976,almost entirely for the Chicago Cubs. A six-time All-Star,Williams was named the 1961 National League (NL) Rookie of the Year after hitting 25 home runs with 86 runs batted in (RBI). A model of consistent production,he went on to provide the Cubs with at least 20 home runs and 80 RBI every year through 1973,batting over .300,hitting 30 home runs and scoring 100 runs five times each. Along with Ernie Banks and Ron Santo,Williams was one of the central figures in improving the Cubs' fortunes in the late 1960s after the club had spent 20 years in the bottom half of the league standings. His 853 RBI and 2,799 total bases in the 1960s were the most by any left-handed hitter in the major leagues.
Otis Williams is an American second tenor/baritone singer. He is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer. Williams is the founder and last surviving original member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations,a group in which he continues to perform;he also owns the rights to the Temptations name.
David Melvin English better known by the stage name Melvin Franklin or his nickname "Blue",was an American bass singer. Franklin was best known for his role as a founding member of Motown singing group The Temptations from 1960 to 1995.
Clifford Williams is an English musician,best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He started his professional music career in 1967 and had previously been in the English groups Home and Bandit. His first studio album with AC/DC was Powerage in 1978. Williams was inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of AC/DC in 2003. Williams announced his retirement from AC/DC in 2016,but returned for their 2020 comeback album Power Up along with band mates Brian Johnson and Phil Rudd. His side projects include benefit concerts.
The Temptations is a four-hour television miniseries broadcast in two-hour halves on NBC,based upon the history of one of Motown's longest-lived acts,The Temptations. Executive produced by former Motown executive Suzanne de Passe,produced by Otis Williams and Temptations manager Shelley Berger,and based upon Williams’Temptations autobiography,the miniseries was originally broadcast on November 1 and November 2,1998. It was filmed on location in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,in the spring of 1998. Allan Arkush directed the miniseries.
Michael Polchlopek is an American retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1993 to 1999 under the ring names Bart Gunn and Bodacious Bart,as well as his appearances with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) from 1998 to 2002 and with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from 2002 to 2004 as Mike Barton.
Anson Williams is an American actor and director,best known for his role as gullible,well-intentioned singer Warren "Potsie" Weber on the television series Happy Days (1974–1984),a role for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor –Series,Miniseries or Television Film.
Michael Anthony Beach is an American actor. He has appeared in films Lean on Me (1989),One False Move (1992),Short Cuts (1993),Waiting to Exhale (1995),A Family Thing (1996),Soul Food (1997),Aquaman (2018),and Saw X (2023). On television,he played Al Boulet on the NBC medical drama ER from 1995 to 1997. From 1999 to 2005,Beach was a regular cast member in another NBC drama series,Third Watch,as Monte Parker,and as T.O. Cross in FX's Sons of Anarchy.
"Hey,Good Lookin'" is a 1951 song written and recorded by Hank Williams,and his version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2003,CMT voted the Hank Williams version No. 19 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music. Since its original 1951 recording it has been covered by a variety of artists.
The 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 70th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL),the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 13,1999,at Fenway Park in Boston,Massachusetts,the home of the Boston Red Sox of the American League.
The Chloroflexota are a phylum of bacteria containing isolates with a diversity of phenotypes,including members that are aerobic thermophiles,which use oxygen and grow well in high temperatures;anoxygenic phototrophs,which use light for photosynthesis;and anaerobic halorespirers,which uses halogenated organics as electron acceptors.
"Farewell My Love" is a 1963 single by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. It was the last single that was written and produced by Motown president Berry Gordy for well over a decade,and the last released during the period of the "Original 5" lineup. It is also noted as the group's last single to miss the Billboard pop chart's Top 40 until 1971's "It's Summer". Up until now the group was jokingly referred to at this time as the "Hitless Temptations" by the Motown staff,much like their "sister" group,The Supremes,were called the "no-hit Supremes". However,their next single,the Smokey Robinson-produced "The Way You Do the Things You Do",would reach the Top 20 of the U.S. pop chart,breaking the group's streak of being "hitless".
Jesse Williams,nicknamed "tha Monstar",is an Australian former American football defensive tackle. Williams played college football for the University of Alabama,where he was a starter on the defensive line for the 2011 and 2012 national championship teams. The Seahawks chose him in the fifth round of the 2013 NFL Draft. Although he spent the majority of his pro career on the injured reserve list,Williams became the first Australian to win a Super Bowl ring as a member of Seattle's 2013 team.
John "Jack" W. Williams is an American politician. He is a member of the Alabama Senate representing the 34th District,since 2018. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 102nd District,serving since 2014. He is a member of the Republican party.
Elbert Williams was an African-American civil rights leader from Brownsville,Tennessee who was killed by unknown persons. He was one of the five charter members of the NAACP branch in Brownsville. Killed in 1940,Williams is the first known NAACP member to be lynched for his civil rights activities.
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- ↑ "Al Williams". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
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