Gilbert Gude
Gilbert Gude( March 9, 1923 – June 7, 2007) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the Maryland's 8th congressional district from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1977.
Gude was born in Washington, D.C., and was educated in the public schools of Rockville, Maryland, and Washington.
He attended the University of Maryland, obtained his B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1948, and his M.A. degree from George Washington University for Public Administration in 1958.
He later taught history and environment courses at Georgetown University and served on the Board of Trustees for The Catholic University of America.
During World War II, Gude served in the Pacific Theater as a part of the United States Army Medical Department from 1943 to 1946.
After the war, Gude was appointed to the Maryland House of Delegates in January 1953, and was later elected to the House of Delegates in 1954, serving until 1958.
He was elected to the Republican State Central Committee in 1958, and elected to the Maryland State Senate in 1962, serving until 1967.
Gude accomplished numerous things while in office, including sponsoring legislation that led to the building of the Washington Metro system, leading efforts to save the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and create the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, and supporting D.C. home rule.
He was a delegate to the Republican State convention in 1952, and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1968.
Gude was elected as a Republican to the 90th Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1967, until January 3, 1977, but was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the 95th Congress.
In 1970, he defeated the Democrat Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., later a prominent lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and the son of Gude's colleague, U.S. Representative Hale Boggs and then Lindy Boggs of Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, based about New Orleans.
During his tenure in Congress, Gude served on the Government Operations Committee and its Conservation, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee; the House Environmental Study; the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission; the Select Committee on Aging and its Retirement Income and Employment Subcommittee; and the House District of Columbia Committee and its Commerce, Housing and Transportation Subcommittee.
Gude was a congressional observer at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972, and later as director of the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service from 1977 to 1985.
Gude served as a member and is former chairman of the Consultative Committee of Experts, International Centre for Parliamentary Documentation of the Inter- Parliamentary Union of Geneva.
Gude died on June 7, 2007, from congestive heart failure in Washington, D.C.
He was survived by his widow, Jane, five children( Adrienne, Daniel, Sharon, Brett and Gregory) and three grandchildren( Edward W. Lewis IV, Alexandra Morgan Lewis, and Michael Gude).
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Joseph Bishara
Joseph Bishara( born July 26, 1970) is an American composer, music producer, and actor, best known for his work scoring films such as" Insidious 11- 11-11 Dark Skies", and" The Conjuring".
Bishara's career began with the 1998 Biblical drama" Joseph's Gift", though he composes music for mainly horror and thriller films and has collaborated several times with director James Wan.
Projects by directors John Carpenter and Joseph Zito, and musicians Ray Manzarek and Diamanda Galás have incorporated Bishara's work.
In addition to composing, Bishara frequently appears in films he is involved in, usually made up as a demon or other supernatural creature.
He has also functioned as a producer on" Repo! The Genetic Opera" and other projects.
Philip Basset
Philip Basset( c. 1185 – 19 October 1271) was the Justiciar of England.
Philip was the son of Alan Basset of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and his wife, Aline Degai.
His elder brothers were Gilbert, a baronial leader, and Fulk, who became bishop of London.
He inherited the manor of Wycombe; the town received market borough status in 1237.
Basset served as the Justiciar of England between the two terms served by his son-in- law, Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer.
He served during the period that Henry III regained control of the government from the barons.
He was married twice.
By Hawise, granddaughter of Godfrey of Louvain( d.1226), he had two daughters.
Robert B. Westbrook (historian)
Robert Brett Westbrook( born September 6, 1950 Austin, Minnesota) is an American historian, and Joseph F. Cunningham Professor of History at the University of Rochester.
Julius Runge
Julius Ludwig Friedrich Runge( 28 June 1843, Röbel – 14 March 1922, Lindau) was a German landscape painter.
Born in Röbel in northern Germany, he studied under Hans Gude and Gustav Schönleber.
He painted in Munich, Karlsruhe, Hamburg and Lindau.
In the early 1880s, he joined the Skagen Painters in the far north of Jutland together with his Swedish tutor Wilhelm von Gegerfelt and his French colleague Émile Barau.
Werner Holmberg
Gustaf Werner Holmberg( 1830 – 1860) was a Finnish landscape painter.
Holmberg was born in Helsinki and learned to paint at the drawing society there.
He moved to Düsseldorf where he studied under Hans Gude and Erik Bodom.
He is known for bringing Romantic landscape painting to Finland.
His" Road in Häme" was painted in the year he died of lung problems in Düsseldorf.
Adeliza Basset
Adeliza Basset(" née" de Dunstanville, died in or after 1210) was an English noblewoman.
She was the daughter of Alan Dunstanville.
She married Thomas Basset, Lord of Hedendon and their children were Gilbert, Thomas and Alan.
Joseph Zito
Joseph Zito( born May 14, 1946) is an American film director and producer, best known for directing several cult and genre films throughout the 1980s, such as" Missing in ActionInvasion U.S.A.Red Scorpion The Prowler", and, In 1985- 1986, Zito spent a year of pre-production on the Cannon version of" Spider- Man", a film that was evidently never actually made.
Kimberly Beck
Kimberly Beck( born January 9, 1956) is a former American actress and model.
She is best known for her role as Trish Jarvis in Joseph Zito's( 1984).
Her other film roles include Alfred Hitchcock's" Marnie"( 1964), Luc Besson's" The Big Blue"( 1988), George T. Miller's" Frozen Assets"( 1992), and Roland Emmerich's" Independence Day"( 1996).

Question: Were Gilbert Gude and Joseph Zito of the same nationality?
Answer: yes