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Event Search Results for "Obama"
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Alan Keyes, the Republican two-time presidential hopeful, threw his hat into Illinois' Senate race (he ended up losing to Democrat Barack Obama).
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Barack Obama, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois, delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Other speakers included Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, Ron Reagan, and Teresa Heinz Kerry. Democrats assailed President Bush's handling of the Iraq war at their convention in Boston and painted a vivid portrait of John Kerry as a decorated war hero. The candidate's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, told the gathering: "He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line."
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Barack Obama, later US Senator from Illinois, was born in Honolulu to a black Kenyan father and a white American mother. He lived most of his early life in Hawaii. From ages six to ten, he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather.
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Joseph Biden, later US Senator for Delaware, was born in Scranton, Pa. In 2008 Barack Obama named Biden as his vice presidential running mate.
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Khamani Griffin, American actor
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Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
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Andrew Taylor, English footballer
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Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
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Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
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Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
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Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
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Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
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Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
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Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
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Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
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Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
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Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
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Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
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King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
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Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
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Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
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Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
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