The group was led by Marky Mark and also featured Ashey Ace, Scottie Gee, Hector the Booty Inspector and DJ-T. The group released their debut album "Music for the People" on July 23, 1991. The album featured their best known song "Good Vibrations".
The group had a video game titled "Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: Make My Video" released by Digital Pictures but it was not successful and is considered to be one of the worst video games ever made.
The band released their second studio album "You Gotta Believe" on September 15, 1992. The band split up in 1993 with Marky Mark joining reggae musician Prince Ital Joe. Marky Mark released until he retired from music in 1998 and became a successful actor.
Reg Dean
Thomas Reginald "Reg" Dean (November 4, 1902 – January 5, 2013) was a British supercenterian who was the second-oldest person in Europe and was the last living person in Britain who was born in 1902. He was the oldest British-born man in England since Claude Choules.
Dean was born on 4 November 1902 in Tunstall, Staffordshire. He was married three times, one marriage ended in the wife's death and the other two ended in divorce. He had one son, Christopher Dean. Dean died on 5 January 2013 in London, England from natural causes, aged 110.
Aaron Swartz
Aaron H. Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist who helped organize the RSS. 10 from the RSS. He was arrested in January 6, 2011 and charged with illegally downloading files from JSTOR.
Swartz was born on November 8, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois. Swartz left high school in the 10th grade. He studied at Stanford University. In 2008 Swartz started Watchdog.net, "the good government site with teeth". In 2009 he helped start the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. In 2010 Swartz started Demand Progress.
Swartz committed suicide by hanging himself in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York City, aged 26. Speaking at his son's funeral, Robert Swartz said, "[Aaron] was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Swartz was given a place in the Internet Hall of Fame in June 2013.
A documentary about Swartz called "" was released in 2014.
Mariangela Melato
Mariangela Melato (September 19, 1941 – January 11, 2013) was an Italian actress who was known for her roles in "Swept Away", "The Seduction of Mimi", "Love and Anarchy", "The Working Class Goes to Heaven", and in "Policewomen".
Melato was born on September 19, 1941 in Milan, Italy. She never married. Melato died on January 11, 2013 from pancreatic cancer in Rome, Italy.
Koto Okubo
Koto Okubo (December 24, 1897 – January 12, 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the time of her death, was the oldest living woman in the world, and second-oldest living person behind Jiroemon Kimura, for less than 4 weeks after Italian-born Americanwoman Dina Manfredini's death on December 17, 2012, after already being the oldest living Japanese woman since Chiyono Hasegawa's death on December 2, 2011, just twelve days after her 115th birthday. She spent her last days in a nursing home in Kawasaki with her son's company. She died of pneumonia at 12.00pm on January 12, 2013, just nineteen days after celebrating her 115th birthday, and was succeeded as the oldest living woman by Misao Okawa, also a Japanesewoman and over 10 weeks younger, and was the second-youngest of only four Japanese people who had become at least 115 years old.
Jiroemon Kimura
Jiroemon Kimura (木村 次郎右衛門, 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian recognized by the Guinness World Records as the oldest man ever as well as the only man who has become at least 116 years old.
Kimura was born as Kinjiro Miyake (三宅 金治郎 Miyake Kinjirō) on 19 April 1897 in the fishing village of Kamiukawa. After he finished school at the age of 14, he worked for local post offices for over 45 years until he retired in 1962 at the age of 65. In the 1920s, he also worked as a government communications worker in Korea, which was at the time a colony of Japan.
After returning from Korea, he married Yae Kimura (1904–1978) who died at age 74, and changed his name to Jiroemon Kimura, since his wife's family lacked a male heir, and had seven children, five of whom are still living. He lived in Kyōtango, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan with his eldest son's widow and grandson's widow.
After his retirement, Kimura worked as a farmer until age 90.
Kimura, who became the oldest living Japanese man after Tomoji Tanabe's death on 19 June 2009, two months after celebrating his 112th birthday and being the 7th Japanese man to do so, became the oldest living man in the world as well as the oldest man to receive the title as the oldest living man after Americanman Walter Breuning's death on 15 April 2011 (Breuning, who was 30 weeks older, died on 14 April 2011 Montana Time), just four days before celebrating his 114th birthday and becoming the second Japanese man and the 7th man in the world to do so. Later that year, on 26 October, Kimura became the oldest Japanese man ever and the 5th oldest ever in the world after breaking the record of Yukichi Chuganji.
On 2 December 2011, upon the death of 115-year-old Chiyono Hasegawa, Kimura became the oldest living person in Japan and the third oldest living person in the world behind Americanwomen Besse Cooper and Dina Manfredini, both of whom died in December 2012, whereafter Kimura also became the oldest living person in the world, and also the oldest man ever after breaking Danish-born Americanman Christian Mortensen's record, and later on 19 April 2013, his 116th birthday, the first and only verified man as well as only the 7th verified person to become at least 116 years old. Less than 5 weeks later, after 113-year-old James Sisnett's death on 23 May, Kimura became the last living man in the world born in the 19th century, after already being the last living Japanese man since 111-year-old Tanekichi Onishi from Hokkaido, who was just a week older than Sisnett, died on 11 September 2011, and even the last living person born in 1897 since Japanesewoman Koto Okubo, who was the oldest living woman, died at age 115 years, 19 days on 12 January 2013.
According to Kimura himself, the sun above him was the secret to his long life, but also that he trained eating until he was only 80 % full, drank alcohol only in moderation and never smoked.
From 11 May 2013, Kimura was hospitalized for pneumonia and later blood-sugar problems and recovered temporarily, but his health continued to decline as his blood-sugar level, urine production and response declined, though until 2.08am the night of 12 June when Kimura died of natural causes aged 116 years, 54 days, as the youngest of only 7 verified people who had become at least 116 years old. He was succeeded as the oldest living person by Japanesewoman Misao Okawa, who already was the oldest living woman since Koto Okubo's death and 320 days younger, and as the oldest living man by Spanish-born Americanman Salustiano Sanchez, who was over 4 years younger.
Ron Mercer
Ron Mercer (born May 18, 1976) is a former NBA basketball player for the Boston Celtics. He wore number 5 jersey for most of his career. He went to school at the University of Kentucky. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
Shark Tank
Shark Tank is an American television show. It is on ABC. It is based on the reality television series "Dragons' Den". The began in 2009.
In each episode, small companies and inventors bring their products to a group of investors called the "Sharks". They offer a percentage of their company or rights to their product in exchange for money or help from the investors.
Common terms used in "Shark Tank":
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