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Billy Blanks
American actor, martial artist and fitness guru (b. 1955)
William Wayne Blanks (born September 1, 1955) is an American actor, martial artist and fitness personality. He was a nationally ranked competitor in semi-contact and point karate during the 1980s,[4][5] winning a bronze medal at the 1981 World Games,[3] before creating the Tae Bo exercise program.[6][7][8][9]
Early life and education
[edit]Blanks was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He began his study of the martial arts at the age of eleven, attending Karate and Taekwondo classes.[6][10] He was born with an anomaly in his hip joints that impaired his movement. The resulting clumsiness aroused taunts from Blanks' siblings and led his instructors to believe that he would never accomplish much. Blanks found the answer to these challenges in karate. When he saw Bruce Lee on TV, he decided he wanted to be a world martial-arts champion.[11]
Martial arts
[edit]Blanks holds black belt ranks in taekwondo (7th dan) and karate (5th dan), and a black sash in Hung Ga kung fu (under Sifu Wong Ting-fong).[2]
During the 1980s, Blanks was a top competitor of the point competition, semi-contact, and sp
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Patrick Macnee
British-American personality (1922–2015)
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| Born | Daniel Patrick Macnee (1922-02-06)6 February 1922 Paddington, London, England |
| Died | 25 June 2015(2015-06-25) (aged 93) Rancho Mirage, California, US |
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| Education | Eton College |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1938–2005 |
| Known for | John Steed in The Avengers |
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| Children | 2 |
| Mother | Dorothea Macnee |
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The 2008 Honours List will be published in the Government Gazette today (July 1). This is the 11th full Honours List since the reunification.
The Chief Executive has accorded awards to a total of 269 persons in this year's Honours List, including:
Award Number
(a) Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM) 4
(b) Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) 8
(c) Silver Bauhinia Star (SBS) 24
(d) Distinguished Service Medals for
the disciplined services and the ICAC 9
(e) Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) &n