WHO I AM ?

I am Nam Phuong, the last empress of Vietnam (1914-1963)
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I was born Marie-Thérèse Nguyen Huu Thị Lan in the French colony of Cochinchina on December 14, 1914 in a Catholic family. A naturalized French citizen, known as Mariette, I studied at the Convent des Oiseaux, a fashionable Catholic school located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, where I was sent at the age of 12

On March 9, 1934, the public announcement of my engagement with Bao Dại, King of Annam was made. The king married me on March 20, 1934, in Hue. The ceremony was Buddhist, though I was a Catholic and continued to be. At the state ceremony that marked the end of the four-day wedding festivities, I was given the title Imperial Princess and renamed Nam Phương, which means Southern Perfume, in acknowledgment of my place of birth.

On 18 June 1945, I was raised in rank from Her Majesty to Her Imperial Majesty. I also was granted the title of empress, my husband having assumed the title of emperor after proclaiming the country's independence from France.

In 1947, after the Communist takeover of the country, with five children I moved to Château Thorens, outside of Cannes, France, which had been in the family since its purchase by my maternal grandfather in the early 20th century

I separated from my husband in 1955. Two years later, when the Vietnamese government announced its confiscation of the imperial family's personal property, the bill specifically excluded any real estate I owned prior to 1949. These properties included my father's villa at Dalat, which is now Lam Dong Museum

I died on September 16, 1963 from a heart attack, at Domaine de La Perche, my home near the small rural village of Chabrignac, Corrèze, France. I was buried in the local cemetery

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Weiling ***** ***** **
Gaofei ***** ***
Jefechispa ***** *
MokeHimKha *****
Caroline *****
Kylie ****
Marcusram ***
Avivi ***
Riza **
Linsi **
Nicole **
Max161 *
Karlom87 *
Rabara *
Photo-journ *
Nukhbat *

25 April to 1 May 2009 contest

WHO I AM ?

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WHO I AM ?

I AM LEE TENG-HUI, FIRST NON-MAIN CHINA PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) FROM 1988 TO 2000
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I was born to a Hakka family in the rural farming community of Sanchih, near Taipei, Taiwan (under Japanese rule at that time). Growing up under Japanese colonial rule, I developed a strong affinity for Japan. His father was a middle-level Japanese police aide and his brother served and died in the Imperial Japanese Navy. So I was given a scholarship to Japan's Kyoto Imperial University. In 1944 I volunteered for service in the Imperial Japanese Army and became a second lieutenant officer of an anti-aircraft gun in Taiwan. He was ordered back to Japan in 1945 where I stayed after the surrender and graduated from Kyoto University in 1946.

After the Republic of China took over Taiwan, I enrolled in the National Taiwan University, where in 1948 I earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural science. In 1953, I received a master's degree in agricultural economics from the Iowa State University in the United States. I returned to Taiwan in 1957 as an economist in an institution sponsored by the U.S. and aimed at modernizing Taiwan's agricultural system and at land reform. During this period, I also worked as an adjunct professor in the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University. In the mid-1960s I returned to the United States, and earned a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell University in 1968.

Shortly after returning to Taiwan, I joined the KMT in 1971 and was made a cabinet minister without portfolio responsible for agriculture. In 1978, I was appointed Mayor of Taipei, where he solved water shortages and improved the city's irrigation problems. In 1981, I became governor of Taiwan Province and made further irrigation improvements.
As a skilled technocrat, I soon caught the eye of President Chiang Ching-kuo as a strong candidate to serve, in 1984, as Vice President because he sought to move more authority to the native Taiwanese. Chiang Ching-kuo died in January 1988 and, according to the constitution, I succeeded him as President.
I Taiwanized the administration and the leadership. At the KMT party congress of July 1988, I named 31 members of the Central Committee, 16 of them were native Taiwanese: for the first time, the native Taiwanese held a majority in what was then a powerful policy-making body.
I infuriated Beijing because I put an end to the One China policy of the Chiang (father and son). I proposed countries to have diplomatic relations both with Beijing and Taipei and said that relations with the PRC should be on state-to-state basis in the negotiations. I travelled abroad on a private status. My June 1995 visit to Cornell University, sparked the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis. The top was in March 1996, when I organized the first election of the president directly by the people. The People's Republic of China conducted a series of missile tests in the waters surrounding Taiwan and other military maneuvers off the coast of Fujian to express its dissatisfaction should the Taiwanese people vote for me, but in fact, these intimidations boosted support for me and on 23 March 1996, I became the first popularly elected ROC president with 54% of the vote.
Observing constitutional term limits I had helped enact, I stepped down from the presidency at the end of my term in 2000 and Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian won the national election with 39% of the vote in a three-way race. Chen's victory marked an end to KMT rule and the first peaceful transfer of power in Taiwan's new democratic system. I resigned my chairmanship on 24 March and was expelled as a party member in December of the same year because I helped to the foundation of a new independence party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union.

Since leaving office I have generally supported "green" causes in Taiwan. Lee continues to travel, make speeches, campaign for TSU candidates, and offer independent-minded commentary on Taiwan politics.

I have publicly supported the Name Rectification Campaigns in Taiwan and proposed changing the name of the country from the Republic of China to the Republic of Taiwan. In a May 2007 trip to Japan, I visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, where World War II Class A criminals are enshrined among the other soldiers, to pay tribute to my older brother.

Lee Teng-Hui University in Taiwan is named after me

10 to 15 May 2009 contest

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WHO I AM ?

I AM BENIGNO (NINOY) AQUINO, LEADER OF THE FILIPINO OPPOSITION. MY ASSASSINATION (1983) LED TO THE FALL OF FERNINAND MARCOS
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I was born on November 27, 1932, in Tarlac Province, on the island of Luzon, to a prominent family, grandson of a general and the son of a Philippine senator.

At age 22, I became the Philippines' youngest mayor in my home-town of Concepcion. Just six years later I became governor of Tarlac province. In 1967 I became the youngest senator ever elected in the Philippines

I became the leading candidate for the presidency in 1973, but President Marcos declared martial law, dissolved the constitution and jailed his political opponents. I was charged with murder, subversion and illegal possession of firearms. Although I denied the charges, I was found guilty by a military court, and spent over seven years in prison.

In 1980 I was allowed to go to the United States for a heart bypass operation and stay there as a refugee. On August 21, 1983 I was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now named the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in my honor) upon returning home from exile in the United States

My death touched off massive demonstrations against President Marcos catapulting my wife Corazon as leader. She became President of the Philippines after the dictator was forced to exile in 1986

To see more

http://www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Aquino-Benigno.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benigno_Aquino,_Jr.

WHO I AM ?

I AM ZHANG ZIYI, CHINESE MOVIE STAR

Born on February 9, 1979, my life changed for the better when at 11 years old, I was admitted to the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy, where I spent the next six years of her life away from my family, engaged in a rigorous training program. All the hard work paid off. When I was 15, I won the national youth dance championship. Two years later, I auditioned for a shampoo commercial directed by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou. After enrolling in the Central Drama Academy, China’s best acting school,

I first caught the attention of filmgoers at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival with my debut performance as a young girl who falls in love with a schoolteacher in director Zhang Yimou's acclaimed drama, "The Road Home" (1999).

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My strong performance and the rumors of a romance with Yimou led many Asian journalists to dub the newcomer "little Gong Li,” after the director's former leading lady, whom he helped raise to prominence in the United States. Within months, I enjoyed a further career boost when the martial arts romance "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000) premiered at Cannes. My performance as the headstrong Jen Wu, a sheltered aristocrat with a taste for adventure, anchored the movie and demonstrated my astonishing range, while stealing the thunder from stars Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat

Already one of the biggest stars in China – and the frequent subject of many tabloids in my native land, I reached mainstream success in America with “Memoirs of a Geisha” (2005), a role that earned me widespread critical acclaim and the rare opportunity to become a high-profile Chinese actress in the United States.

I next had a co-starring role in Tsui Hark's sequel "Zu, Warriors from the Magic Mountain 2" (2001), which I soon followed by making her American debut opposite Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in the successful, but contrived sequel, "Rush Hour 2" (2001), playing a dangerous femme fatale – a role that found me struggling with uneven English. I continued my impressive run, starring in another towering cinematic and commercial triumph, "Ying xiong" (2002), which was released in the United States under the title "Hero" (2004).

I reunited with director Zhang Yimou to star for the big-budget tale set at the violent dawn of the Qin dynasty, circa 220 B.C., where the soon-to-be first Emperor is on the brink of conquering the war-torn land in which I played the faithful servant of Broken Sword (Leung). The film become a phenomenal hit in Asia and Europe, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 in the foreign language category before its North American release in 2004, where it went on to become a solid box office hit.

In “Purple Butterfly” (2004), a historical romance about the innocence of new love torn asunder by the Sino-Japanese War, I played Ding Hui, a beautiful Chinese girl in love with a Japanese man whose brief love affair ends when he is shipped off to join the military. After Japan’s occupation of Shanghai, Ding Hui joins a resistance movement that plans to assassinate the head of the Japanese secret service and boss of her old flame.

Just weeks after the release of “Purple Butterfly” in America, I was seen again in another high profile film from Zhang Yimou, “House of Flying Daggers” (2004), a stunningly visual martial arts romance set in 9th century China during the decline of the once-flourishing Tang Dynasty. As Mei, a blind dancer who leads a policeman to the secret lair of a group of wanted assassins, The Flying Daggers, I gave a nuanced performance that juggled a superficial innocence with darker ulterior motives and a descent into love, despite nefarious intentions. Widespread critical praise and box office success helped elevate me into a rare high-profile Chinese actress in the United States.

For my next film, Wong Kar Wai’s hypnotic “2046” (2005), Zhang displayed a simmering intensity in my performance as a high class prostitute residing next to a struggling author of erotic fiction in a rundown hotel with whom I engages in a love affair doomed to end in tears. I next starred in “Operetta Tanuki Goten” (2005), a strange fairy tale about weird raccoon-like creatures living atop a mountain ruled by a vengeful princess (me)

Next for me was “Memoirs of a Geisha” (2005), Rob Marshall’s long-awaited adaptation of Arthur Golden’s best-selling novel about a poor Japanese girl torn from her home and raised in a geisha house; a role which helped turn me into a household name in America. Under the guidance of the famed Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), the girl develops into Sayuri (me), a beautiful and accomplished geisha who captivates some of the most powerful men in the world, but is haunted by a secret love for the one man beyond my reach (Ken Watanabe).

I was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama. After voicing Karai in “TMNT” (2007), I starred opposite Dennis Quaid in “Horsemen” (2009), playing the prime suspect in a serial killer spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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To see more :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Ziyi http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955471/mediaindex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQMBlWRj4mM&hl=fr

This week, the winner is MPRUM, she gets **
The other winner is Limsing1958, he gets *

SO FAR THE RESULT OF THE CONTEST IS :

Limsing1958 ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** **
Zia ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ****
Choco ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Warazein ***** ***** **
Weiling ***** ***** **
Gaofei ***** ***
Jefechispa ***** *
MokeHimKha *****
Caroline *****
Kylie ****
Marcusram ***
Avivi ***
Riza **
Linsi **
Nicole **
Mprum **
Max161 *
Karlom87 *
Rabara *
Photo-journ *
Nukhbat *

1 to 5 June 2009 contest

WHO I AM ?

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WHO I AM ?

I AM WANG DAN, ONE OF THE STUDENT LEADER DURING THE TIANANMEN UPRISINGS
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I was born in 1969.

Before the demonstrations began, I had already been organizing" democracy salons" at Beijing University where I was studying history. Following the crackdown on the protest movement, I was No.1 on the Chinese government's list of the 21 "most wanted" fugitives student leaders.

I went into hiding but was arrested on July 2, 1989, and, on January 26, 1991, sentenced to four years in prison on charges of counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement. In 1991 I spent a four-month period in solitary confinement.

I was released on parole on February 17, 1993 several months before the completion of his sentence, officially for "having observed prison regulations." I was formally expelled from Beijing University for political activities.

After my release, I continued to advocate for democratization and respect for human rights, meeting with fellow activists, initiating petitions, writing for publications outside of China, collecting funds for victims of rights abuses and their families and speaking with journalists. For that I was repeatedly detained

After being released on parole in 1993, he continued to write publicly (to publications outside of Mainland China) and was re-arrested in 1995 for conspiring to overthrow the Communist Party of China [1] and was sentenced in 1996 to 11 years.

On 21 May 1995, I was arrested after I had signed and initiated several petitions over the previous few months, including the "Draw Lessons from Blood" petition and the "Tolerance" petition, requesting a reassessment of the 1989 protests, calling for tolerance towards dissent and for the release of political prisoners and held in a secret location. My family was given no information about my whereabouts or why I was being held. I was neither charged nor tried and had no opportunity to challenge my detention before a court.

On 7 October 1996, the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate issued an indictment charging me with "conspiring to subvert the government" through number of acts, including: "accepting a scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley", "publishing anti-government articles abroad", "joining other dissidents to set up a mutual aid plan" and "carrying out a series of criminal acts which endangered the security of the state". For that I was given 11 years

Just before U.S. President Bill Clinton's China visit in 1998, I was released on medical parole and was flown to the United States for treatment due to faucitis, gastroenteritis and headache. I resumed my university study at Harvard University in 1998 and completed my master's in East Asian history in 2001, earning my Ph.D. in 2008.

In 2007 my second sentence expired and was officially "released" and the certificate was issued to my parents on Oct 2, 2007

I am currently the chairman of the Chinese Constitutional Reform Association and live in Taiwan

This week the winner is Warazein He gets **

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Zia ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ****
Choco ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Warazein ***** ***** ****
Weiling ***** ***** **
Gaofei ***** ***
Jefechispa ***** *
MokeHimKha *****
Caroline *****
Kylie ****
Marcusram ***
Avivi ***
Riza **
Linsi **
Nicole **
Mprum **
Max161 *
Karlom87 *
Rabara *
Photo-journ *
Nukhbat *

15 to 20 June 2009 contest

WHO I AM ?

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This week winners will be announced on the forum on June 21.

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WHO I AM ?

I AM GENERAL ZIAUR RAHMAN, LEADER OF BANGLADESH (1976-1981)
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I am Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman, born on January 19 1936 and assassinated on May 30, 1981 in an abortive military coup

I was a charismatic Bangladeshi war hero, politician and statesman. I was the President of Bangladesh from 1976 until 1981 and founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, one of the two largest political parties in the country.

My widow, Begum Khaleda Zia, has been Prime Minister of Bangladesh three times and is currently the Leader of Opposition in the Jatiya Sangsad

I am popularly known as Shaheed Zia, meaning martyred Zia, in reference to my assassination in 1981

That is what I like, but in fact I am considered one of the most important and controversial political leaders of Bangladesh.

I am criticized by historians for rehabilitating the assassins of Mujibur Rahman. Also deeply controversial is my rehabilitation of persons and political groups that had collaborated with the Pakistani army in carrying out atrocities against intellectuals and religious minorities. I am also criticized for creating a "managed democracy," which remained largely beholden to the military and his political party. In a verdict passed on August 30, 2005 the Dhaka High Court declared the seizures of power by military coups between 1975 and 1979, including my military regime as "unlawful and unconstitutional.
To know more :
http://www.answers.com/topic/ziaur-rahman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ziaur_Rahman
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/biography/zia.html

This week the winner is ZIA He gets **
The other winner is Warazein, he gets *

SO FAR THE RESULT OF THE CONTEST IS :

Limsing1958 ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** **
Zia ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *
Choco ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
Warazein ***** ***** *****
Weiling ***** ***** **
Gaofei ***** ***
Jefechispa ***** *
MokeHimKha *****
Caroline *****
Kylie ****
Marcusram ***
Avivi ***
Riza **
Linsi **
Nicole **
Mprum **
Max161 *
Karlom87 *
Rabara *
Photo-journ *
Nukhbat *