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Meryl Davis is a former competitive American ice dancer. With partner Charlie White,she is the 2014 Olympic champion,the 2010 Olympic silver medalist,a two-time World champion,five-time Grand Prix Final champion (2009–2013),three-time Four Continents champion and six-time U.S. national champion (2009–2014). They also won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Charles Allen White Jr. is an American former competitive ice dancer. With partner Meryl Davis,he is the 2014 Olympic Champion,the 2010 Olympic silver medalist,a two-time World champion,five-time Grand Prix Final champion (2009–2013),three-time Four Continents champion and six-time U.S. national champion (2009–2014). They also won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Charles Manuel Pasarell Jr. is a Puerto Rican former tennis player,tennis administrator and founder of the current Indian Wells tournament. He has also commented for the Tennis Channel and with Arthur Ashe and Sheridan Snyder formed the National Junior Tennis League. He was ten times ranked in the top ten of the U.S. and No. 1 in 1967 and world No. 11 in 1966. Representing the United States as a player,he has been heavily engaged in the administration of the professional game from the inception of the ATP in 1972 and has been Vice President when he was still playing and until recently on the Board of Directors representing the Americas tournaments. In 2013,Pasarell was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Richard Crealy is an Australian former tennis player most notable for reaching the final of the Australian Open in 1970,being a member of the 1970 Australian Davis Cup Team,and winning three Grand Slam titles in doubles.
Charlie Davis is a former professional American football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). Davis was a 9th round selection by the Pittsburgh Steelers out of Texas Christian University in the 1974 NFL Draft. He played for seven seasons in the NFL. He was a back-up defensive tackle for the Steelers and a member of the their first World Championship Super Bowl IX over the Minnesota Vikings,was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals Sep 15 1975,for whom he played from (1975–1979),and the Houston Oilers (1980). Charlie played the best game of his career in the 1975 NFC Divisional Playoffs against the LA Rams when he recorded 5 sacks and recovered a fumble.
Collectors' Items is a 1956 studio album by Miles Davis. There are two sessions collected on the album with largely different musicians. The first 1953 session is "Compulsion","The Serpent's Tooth" and "'Round About Midnight". The second 1956 session is "In Your Own Sweet Way","Vierd Blues" and "No Line". The personnel for the first session were Davis,Sonny Rollins and Charlie Parker on tenor sax,Walter Bishop on piano,Percy Heath on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. For the second session,the tenor sax was Rollins alone,the piano was Tommy Flanagan,the bass Paul Chambers and Art Taylor on drums.
Davis and White are American former ice dancers. The pair are the 2014 Olympic Champion,the 2010 Olympic silver medalist,a two-time World champion,five-time Grand Prix Final champion (2009–2013),three-time Four Continents champion and six-time U.S. national champion (2009–2014). They also won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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- ↑ "Charlie Davis". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
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