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Michael Jordon
- Won four league MVPs
- 1990-1991 was his best playing year
- He wore number 23

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Friends
- It is one of the most-watched shows on Netflix
- The cast worked together to raise their pay in season 3
- Jennifer Aniston was the last of the main six characters to join

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They're underachievers and proud of it. Bart, Homer and the rest of the Simpsons put the "nuclear" in the nuclear family sitcom, while Jerry Seinfeld scores with a show about "nothing." Six Friends make twentysomething coffee talk chic, teens turn on to Buffy, Dawson, and the kids from 90210, something weird this way comes on The X-Flies, and success comes to everything from the silly ( Home Improvement) to the serious ( ER) to the seriously silly (can you say "Urkel"?). With six networks and umpteen cable channels, everybody's got a show, anyone can be a star, and by the end of the decade, everybody wants to be a millionaire.

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They're underachievers and proud of it. Bart, Homer and the rest of the Simpsons put the "nuclear" in the nuclear family sitcom, while Jerry Seinfeld scores with a show about "nothing."

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Tom Hanks
- Starred in Forrest Gump, Castaway, Saving Private Ryan, and Apollo 13, as well as many others.
- He was born on July 9th, 1956
- He has also directed and written several other movies

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Who Is Tom Hanks?

Tom Hanks began performing with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in 1977, later moving to New York City. He starred in the television sitcom Bosom Buddies, but became far more known when he starred in the Ron Howard film Splash. He went on to headline many more popular and acclaimed movies, including Big, Forrest Gump and Cast Away, en route to becoming one of the most powerful and well-respected actors in Hollywood.

Early Life and Career

Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, California. Hanks' parents divorced when he was 5 years old, and he was raised, along with his older brother and sister, by his father, a chef named Amos. The family moved frequently, finally settling in Oakland, California, where Hanks attended high school.

After graduating in 1974, Hanks attended junior college in Hayward, California. He decided to pursue acting after reading and watching a performance of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (1946), and transferred into the theater program at California State University in Sacramento.

In 1977, Hanks was recruited to take part in the summer session of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood Ohio. Over the next three years, Hanks spent his summers acting in various productions of Shakespeare's plays and his winters working backstage at a community theater company in Sacramento. He won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in 1978, for his portrayal of Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Movies and Career

Big Break With 'Splash'

By 1980, Hanks had dropped out of college, and after his third season with the Great Lakes festival, he moved to New York City. Many rounds of auditions later, he landed a small part in the 1980 slasher film He Knows You're Alone. That same year he was spotted by a talent scout for ABC and was cast in the television sitcom Bosom Buddies, playing one of two advertising executives who dress in drag in order to rent an apartment in an all-female building.

The show was cancelled after two seasons, but it gave Hanks some exposure and led to his casting in guest roles on various episodes of popular shows like Happy Days (1974-84), Taxi (1978-83), The Love Boat (1977-87) and Family Ties (1982-89). In 1982, Ron Howard, co-star of Happy Days and now working as a director, remembered Hanks and had him read for a supporting part in a movie. That supporting role eventually went to John Candy, and Hanks instead landed the lead role in Howard's Splash (1984) as a man who falls in love with a mermaid, played by Daryl Hannah. The movie became a surprise hit, and Hanks was suddenly a recognizable face.

A string of panned films followed, most notably Bachelor Party (1984), The Man With One Red Shoe (1985), Volunteers (1985), The Money Pit (1986) and Dragnet (1987). Hanks managed to emerge relatively unscathed from these critical failures, as reviewers often pointed to his performance as the best thing about each movie.

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Major Hit: 'Big'

In 1988, Hanks was finally cast in a star-making role in director Penny Marshall's Big, playing a 13-year-old boy transplanted overnight into the body of a 35-year-old man. His performance charmed both critics and audiences, and earned him his first Academy Award nomination for best actor.

With Big, Hanks established that he could be a box-office draw as well as a talented actor. Over the next few years, his projects failed to match the critical or commercial success of that film, although they did display Hanks' wide range, from lighthearted comedies (1989's Turner and Hooch, 1990's Joe Versus the Volcano) to more dramatic fare (1988's Punchline, 1990's Bonfire of the Vanities).

Oscar Wins for 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump'

Following a memorable performance as the manager of an all-women's baseball team in A League of Their Own (1992), Hanks enjoyed two huge hits in 1993: Sleepless in Seattle, a romantic comedy written by Nora Ephron that rematched him with his Joe Versus the Volcano co-star Meg Ryan; and Philadelphia, co-starring Denzel Washington. In the latter film, Hanks played a lawyer fired from his high-paying firm because he has AIDS, delivering a courageous performance that earned him an Academy Award for best actor.

He followed up on that tremendous year with the release of Forrest Gump (1994), the sprawling story of an unlikely hero's path through 20th-century American history, directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film was a phenomenal box office success, winning Oscars for best picture and director. For his part, Hanks brought home his second straight lead actor Oscar, becoming the first person in 50 years to accomplish that feat.

Blockbusters: 'Apollo 13,' 'Toy Story,' 'Saving Private Ryan'

In 1995, Hanks starred in another blockbuster, Apollo 13, a Howard film based on the abortive lunar landing mission of the Apollo 13 spacecraft in 1970. The film was released in the IMAX format in 2002. Like Forrest Gump, the film made more than $500 million at the box office. Also in 1995, he headlined the voice cast of Toy Story, the first major film of the Disney/Pixar partnership.

The following year, Hanks made his directorial and screenwriting debut with That Thing You Do!, which enjoyed moderate success. He continued his behind-the-camera duties in the Emmy-winning HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, which he produced, directed, wrote and acted in for various episodes.

In 1998, he starred in another groundbreaking blockbuster, Saving Private Ryan, a World War II drama directed by Steven Spielberg and filmed with gruesome accuracy. While the film was nominated for director and actor Academy Awards and was a favorite for best picture, only Spielberg took home the Oscar. Also that year, Hanks teamed once more with Ryan and Ephron in the hit romantic comedy You've Got Mail.

'Toy Story 2,' 'The Green Mile,' 'Cast Away'

Hanks soared to the top of the holiday box office in late 1999 as he reprised his role as the voice of Woody, the cowboy at the center of 1995's animated film Toy Story. Toy Story 2, also featuring the voice of Tim Allen, surpassed all expectations at the box office, grossing a record-breaking $80.8 million when it opened over Thanksgiving weekend. He also starred in The Green Mile during this time, which shot to No. 2 at the box office, behind Toy Story 2, in its opening weekend. The film was set in a Depression-era prison and adapted from a story by Stephen King.

Hanks underwent a striking physical transformation to play a man stranded on a desert island in his next film, the long-awaited Cast Away (2000), directed by Zemeckis and co-starring Helen Hunt. His performance propelled the film to the top of the holiday box office, earning Hanks critical raves and yet another well-deserved Oscar nomination for best actor.

Having already notched an imposing record of box office hits, his accessible good looks and regular-guy charisma earning him comparisons with screen legends of the past like Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda and Gary Cooper, Hanks in 2002 was honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, making him the youngest actor ever to receive that honor.

'The Da Vinci Code,' 'Charlie Wilson's War' and Broadway

In 2002, Hanks produced the surprise hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding, starring Nia Vardalos. He was back on the big screen in 2004 with Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of the classic 1955 comedy The Ladykillers, Spielberg's comedy-drama The Terminal and the family film The Polar Express. The A-list actor also continued his producing work with the Imax space documentary Magnificent Desolation (2005) and Evan Almighty (2007).

Hanks was next seen in the highly anticipated The Da Vinci Code (2006), based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown and co-starring Audrey Tatou. The film grossed more than $750 million worldwide. During the 2007 Christmas season, Hanks appeared as the lead in Charlie Wilson's War, a drama based on a Texas congressman's efforts to assist Afghan rebels in their war with the Soviets. The performance earned Hanks a Golden Globe nomination.

In 2009, Hanks starred in Angels and Demons, the sequel to Da Vinci. He went on to perform voiceover work for the acclaimed TV miniseries The Pacific (2010) and Toy Story 3 (2010), before starring in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) and Cloud Atlas (2012).

After a monumental screen career, Hanks made his Broadway debut in the 2013 production of Lucky Guy. He impressed enough to garner a Tony Award nomination for best performance by a lead actor, but lost out to Tracy Letts of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

'Saving Mr. Banks,' 'Bridge of Spies,' 'The Post'

Also in 2013, Hanks played the title character of the nautical thriller Captain Phillips and portrayed Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks, which focuses on how the studio head convinced P.L. Travers, played by Emma Thompson, to grant permission to make Mary Poppins a cinematic project.

After Hanks was seen strutting his stuff in popster Carly Rae Jepsen's music video "I Really Like You," critics greatly took to his portrayal of a U.S. attorney in the Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies. The autumn 2015 outing saw the actor reunited with director Spielberg. In November 2016, Hanks received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama for his contribution to the arts.

In 2017, Hanks teamed up with Meryl Streep for Spielberg's The Post, about the drama surrounding the Washington Post's publication of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. Once again, the veteran actor's performance was lauded by critics and led to another Golden Globe nomination.

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'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'

In January 2018, it was announced that Hanks had signed on to play Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Based on an Esquire profile by Tom Junod, which recounts the writer's experience of meeting and befriending the beloved children's TV star, the film earned a November 2019 release.

Marriages, Children and Personal

Hanks met his first wife, actress and producer Samantha Lewes (real name: Susan Dillingham), while he was in college. They were married in 1978 and had two children, Colin and Elizabeth, before divorcing in 1987.

In 1988, he married actress Rita Wilson, with whom he co-starred in Volunteers. Hanks and Wilson have two children, Chester and Truman.

In an October 2013 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Hanks revealed that he was facing a major health challenge. "I went to the doctors and they said, 'You know those high blood sugar numbers you've been living with since you were 36? Well, you've graduated. You've got Type 2 diabetes,'" he said.

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Tom Hanks began performing with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in 1977, later moving to New York City. He starred in the television sitcom Bosom Buddies, but became far more known when he starred in the Ron Howard film Splash.

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Hocus Pocus
- The sequel came out on September 30, 2022
- There were Pop figures made of the three main witches
- Directed by Kenny Ortega

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Three outlandishly wild witches return from 17th-century Salem after they’re accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting pranksters!

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Walkman
- It was marketed toward teens and younger audiences
- It helped people exercise
- The headphones were updated from the earmuff-style ones of the ’60s

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It was four decades ago that the Sony Walkman-the first truly portable, truly private music playing device-hit the market and permanently changed the way we interact with the world and with sound while creating legions of half-deaf Gen Xers in the process. Here are just a few of the high-volume numbers that have marked the 40 years since the debut of the first model-the Walkman TPS-L2-on July 1, 1979.

50,000 Units sold in the first two months of its release.

385 Million Units sold between 1979 and 2009, the year before the name was retired.

200 Million Walkman units that were cassette players; the remainder were either CD, Mini-Disc, MP3 players, or smartphones.

199 Dollars, the original retail price of the first Sony Walkman model upon release.

738 Dollars, the cost of the original Sony Walkman converted to 2019 dollars.

799 Dollars, the cost of this refurbished TPS-L2 on Etsy.

3,199 Dollars, the cost of the most expensive model in Sony's current high-end audio digital Walkman series.

30 Percent increase in the number of people who claimed to walk for exercise during the products' peak sales years of 1987 to 1997.

14 Ounces, the approximate weight of the TPS-L2. An Apple iPhone X weighs 6.14 ounces.

300 Different models of Walkmans made between 1979 and 2010... at minimum.

50 The percent of the market share that Sony Walkman products owned in the portable music device category in 1989.

2,000 Limited-edition silver-plated Walkmans made for the product's 10th-year anniversary. Another silver-plated edition was created for its 20th birthday.

90 Minutes, the typical, maximum amount of playback a cassette tape could perform and still offer quality music audio in 1979.

1,980 Minutes, the maximum amount of playback the current WM1A Signature Series Walkman offers.
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14 Facts for The Sony Walkman's 40th Anniversary - SURFACE

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Tupac - Snoop Dogg accepted his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for him after he died
Nirvana - Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014
Beastie Boys - Three members: Mike D, MCA, and Ad-Rock

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Hip-hop music jumps off the streets and into the pop mainstream thanks to high-stepping, fast-rapping performers like Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. Later on, the hip-hop scene makes room for dynamic divas like En Vogue and TLC. The independent spirit of punk rock lives on through the indie-rock 'grunge' sound of groups like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. But by the decade's end, good old-fashioned teen-pop takes on a high-tech style through the sounds of Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, bringing teenybopper pop full circle and into a new millennium.

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Furby - A digital toy that could speak and blink
Bop It - Had three demands: bop it, twist it, and pull it
Polly Pocket - A miniature world that held little characters

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Games and Toys in the 90s basically made a decade of fads and prosperity. Everything from Power Rangers to Pogs to Pokémon. Tickle Me Elmo pulls a Cabbage Patch on holiday-shopping parents, while Beanie Babies raise the collector frenzy to uncharted levels. The digital age keeps its roots in the ever-evolving video game systems from Nintendo, Sega, Sony and others, but Tamagotchi virtual pets and Furby lead the interactive toy parade into the high-tech future.

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The Gulf War
- Iraq attacked Kuwait for power and money
- Led to the Iraq War
- The first war that was heavily televised

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Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team. The group consisted of seventy-three people from fifteen countries, aged twenty-two to seventy-six, living in a tent camp close to Iraq's border with Saudi Arabia, along the road to Mecca.

Our mission: to nonviolently interpose ourselves between the warring parties.

We're sorry for coldly viewing your land as a "target rich environment" and then systematically destroying your electrical facilities, sewage and sanitation plants, roads, bridges, infrastructure, health care, education, and livelihood.

In this capacity, we witnessed the dismal onset of the air war at 3 a.m. local time on January 17, 1991, huddled under blankets, hearing distant explosions, and watching anxiously as war planes flew overhead. With so many fighter jets crossing the skies, we wondered if there would be anything left of Baghdad.

Ten days later, Iraqi authorities told us to prepare to evacuate to Baghdad. Not all of us could agree on how to respond. Adhering to basic principles, twelve peace team members resolved to sit in a circle, holding signs saying "We choose to stay."

Buses arrived the next morning, along with two Iraqi civilians and two soldiers. Tarak, a civilian, was in charge, under orders to follow a timetable for the evacuation. Looking at the circle of twelve, Tarak seemed a bit baffled. He walked over to where I stood. "Excuse me, Ms. Kathy," he asked, "but what am I to do?"

"No one in that circle means you any harm," I assured him. "And no one wishes to disrespect you, but they won't be able to board the bus on their own. It's a matter of conscience."

Tarak nodded and then motioned to the other Iraqis who followed him as he approached Jeremy Hartigan, the tallest person sitting in the circle. Jeremy, an elderly British lawyer and Buddhist, was chanting a prayer as he sat with his sign.

Tarak bent over Jeremy, kissed him on the forehead, and said, "Baghdad!" Then he pointed to the bus.

Next, he, the other civilian, and two Iraqi soldiers carefully hoisted Jeremy, still in his cross-legged position, and carried him to the top step of the bus. Gently placing him down, Tarak then asked, "Mister, you okay?" In this manner, they proceeded to evacuate the remaining eleven people in the circle.

Another evacuation was happening as Iraqi forces, many of them young conscripts-hungry, disheveled, and unarmed-poured out of Kuwait along a major highway, later called "the Highway of Death."

Boxed in by U.S. forces, many Iraqis abandoned their vehicles and ran away from what had become a huge and very dangerous traffic jam. Iraqis attempting to surrender were stuck in a long line of Iraqi military vehicles. They were systematically slaughtered.

"It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot of the air attack. Another called it "a turkey shoot."

Days earlier, on February 24, U.S. Army forces buried scores of living Iraqi soldiers in trenches. According to The New York Times, Army officials said "the Iraqi soldiers who died remained in their trenches as plow-equipped tanks dumped tons of earth and sand onto them, filling the trenches to ensure that they could not be used as cover from which to fire on allied units that were poised to pour through the gaps."

Shortly after viewing photos of gruesome carnage caused by the ground and air attacks, President George H.W. Bush called for a cessation of hostilities on February 27, 1991. An official ceasefire was signed on March 4.

It's ironic that, in October 1990, Bush had asserted that the United States would never stand by and let a larger country swallow a smaller country. His country had just invaded Grenada and Panama and, as the President spoke, the U.S. military pre-positioned at three Saudi ports hundreds of ships, thousands of aircraft, and millions of tons of equipment and fuel in preparation to invade Iraq.

Noam Chomsky notes that there were diplomatic alternatives to the bloodletting and destruction visited upon Iraq by Operation Desert Storm. Iraqi diplomats had submitted an alternative plan which was suppressed in the mainstream media and flatly rejected by the Bush Administration.

The U.S. State Department, along with Margaret Thatcher's government in the United Kingdom, were hell-bent on moving ahead with their war plans. "This was no time to go wobbly," U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously warned Bush.

The resolve to attack and punish Iraqis never ceased.

After the "success" of Operation Desert Storm, the bombing war turned into an economic war, which lasted through 2003. As early as 1995, United Nations documents clarified that the economic war, waged through continued imposition of U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq, was far more brutal than even the worst of the 1991 aerial and ground war attacks.

In 1995, two Food and Agriculture Organization scientists estimated that more than half a million Iraqi children under age five had likely died due to economic sanctions.

In February 1998, while visiting a hospital in Baghdad, I watched two friends from the United Kingdom trying to absorb the horror of seeing children being starved to death because of policy decisions made by the United States and the United Kingdom. Martin Thomas, himself a nurse, looked at mothers sitting cross-legged, holding their limp and dying infants, in a ward where helpless doctors and nurses tried to treat many dozens of children.

"I think I understand," said Thomas. "It's a death row for infants." Milan Rai, now editor of Peace News and then the coordinator of a U.K. campaign to defy the economic sanctions, knelt next to one of the mothers. Rai's own child was close in age to the toddler the mother cradled. "I'm sorry," Rai murmured. "I'm so very sorry."

Those six words whispered by Milan Rai, are, I believe, incalculably important.

If only people in the United States and the United Kingdom could take those words to heart, undertaking to finally pressure their governments to echo these words, and themselves say, "We're sorry. We're so very sorry."

We're sorry for coldly viewing your land as a "target rich environment" and then systematically destroying your electrical facilities, sewage and sanitation plants, roads, bridges, infrastructure, health care, education, and livelihood. We're sorry for believing we somehow had a right to the oil in your land, and we're sorry many of us lived so well because we were consuming your precious and irreplaceable resources at cut-rate prices.

We're sorry for slaughtering hundreds of thousands of your children through economic sanctions and then expecting you to thank us for liberating you. We're sorry for wrongfully accusing you of harboring weapons of mass destruction while we looked the other way as Israel acquired thermonuclear weapons.

We're sorry for again traumatizing your children through the 2003 "Shock and Awe" bombing, filling your broken-down hospitals with maimed and bereaved survivors of the vicious bombing and then causing enormous wreckage through our inept and criminal occupation of your land.

We're sorry. We're so very sorry. And we want to pay reparations.

From March 5 to 8, Pope Francis will visit Iraq. Security concerns are high, and I won't begin to second guess the itinerary that has been developed. But knowing of his eloquent and authentic plea to end wars and stop the pernicious weapons trade, I wish that Francis could kneel and kiss the ground at the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad.

There, on February 13, 1991, two 2,000-lb. U.S. laser guided missiles killed 400 civilians, mostly women and children. Another 200 were severely wounded. I wish President Joe Biden could meet the Pope there and ask him to hear his confession.

I wish people around the world could be represented by the Pope as a symbol of unity expressing collective sorrow for making war after hideous war, in Iraq, against people who meant us no harm.

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Doc Martens - They have signature yellow string around the edges

GAP Sweatshirts - It started as a hoodie for boys and babies

Beanies - A close-fitting, brimless cap.

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A little something for everyone. Depressed? It always rains in the grunge world of flannels and army surplus. Angry? Let it out, you riot grrrl, with a little body piercing. Just wanna dance? Pick your flavor: hip-hop's got the street covered, and raves are cutting loose underground.

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George H.W. Bush, 4 years
- The 41st president
- Served in WWII in the Navy
- Went to Yale University

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WASHINGTON, December 3, 2018 - The National Archives and Records Administration will take part in a national day of mourning for George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, who died on November 30 at the age of 94.

President Donald Trump declared December 5, 2018, as a National Day of Mourning, In his Presidential Proclamation issued on December 1, 2018.

"I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President George H.W. Bush," Trump said in the proclamation.

All public programs and special events planned at National Archives facilities nationwide for December 5, will be rescheduled, and National Archives research facilities will be closed. The George Bush and the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museums, which will also be closed, but the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, and museums at the National Archives Presidential Libraries will be open to the public for normal visitor hours.

Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero noted Bush's lifetime of dedication to the country.

"Together, we remember President Bush and honor his legacy," Ferriero said. "A patriot, a statesman, a leader who worked ceaselessly for a kinder, gentler America, President Bush promoted the values of democracy that we uphold every day through our work. Please join me in remembering his service to our Nation."

The National Archives George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, posted this tribute on their website: "President Bush was intimately involved in the Presidential Library and local community, from attending exhibit openings and forums, to frequently being seen in the museum and surrounding grounds. So many people here have been touched by his life and knowing him personally. Through his Presidential Library and Museum, we will continue to honor his life and legacy with our utmost reverence."

Bush's Presidency capped a long career in public life, beginning in his adopted home state of Texas as a member of Congress in the late 1960s and ending in the White House after serving as Vice President for eight years.

A son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush, he put off his college studies and joined the U.S. Navy at the age of 18. He became one of its youngest aviators, and was shot down over the Pacific in 1944, then rescued by Navy ships. After the war, he married Barbara Pierce and moved his family to Texas, where he worked in the oil business before going into politics.

He was elected to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971, but lost an election to the U.S. Senate in 1970. For the next few years, he held several offices in the Nixon and Ford administrations, including chairman of the Republican National Committee, U.S. Ambassador to China, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Bush was a candidate for President in 1980, then after losing the Republican nomination to Ronald Reagan, was chosen by Reagan as his running mate, and the Reagan-Bush ticket defeated the Democratic ticket in a landslide.

In 1988, Bush ran for and won the Republican nomination for President and became the first sitting Vice President to be elected President since Martin Van Buren in 1836. He defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis, then was defeated himself four years later by Bill Clinton.

Bush's Presidency was marked by the end of the Cold War with the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union as well as the first Gulf War and the defeat of Saddam Hussein of Iraq.

Bush was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara, earlier this year, and a daughter, Robin, who died as a child. He leaves one daughter, Dorothy, and four sons, George W., the 43rd President of the United States; Jeb, a former Governor of Florida, Neil; and Marvin. He is the longest-lived President in U.S. history.
Obituary and funeral information are online at www.georgehwbush.com. The Archivist of the United States writes about President Bush in his blog post, "Remembering President George Herbert Walker Bush."

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National Archives Mourns Passing of President George H. W. Bush

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By James Worsham and Miriam Kleiman | National Archives News Enlarge President George H.W. Bush (National Archives Identifier 6440299) View in National Archives Catalog WASHINGTON, December 3, 2018 - The National Archives and Records Administration will take part in a national day of mourning for George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, who died on November 30 at the age of 94.

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Ferrari F355
- The F355 was made as a replacement for the 348
- It came out in 1994 as a 1995 model
- Launched in 2 body styles