Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Cypher in the Snow
Cypher in the Snow were an all women queercore band from San Francisco.
One of the band's first appearances was at the" Dirtybird" Queercore Festival in San Francisco in 1996.
This historic festival also featured Tribe 8, Sta-Prest, Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live, The Need and many others.
Cypher in the Snow was made up of between six and seven members, and the line- up changed a number of times during the band's history.
The original members included Anna Joy Springer, formerly the singer for punk bands Blatz and Gr'ups on vocals; Daniela Sea( as Dan- yella Dyslexia), also from the Gr'ups, played guitar; Rusten( as Shari Lambchop) was the drummer; Ulla McKnight( as Ulla Imd) on vocals; Margaret Hitchcock was the trumpet player; Chloe Sherman( as Chloe Little Hope) played bass; and Lala Hulse on banjo and lap steel.
Juliana Snapper joined as vocalist on the song" Rock Opera".
When Rusten left the band to play with The Third Sex, Paula Cronan, who also played with Death Card 13 and The Dodge Brothers, became the new drummer.
Other members include Dorothy Wang, Elitrea Frye, Carmen White, and Toni Gogin of Sleater- Kinney who played guest guitar with the band on tour, after the release of their first CD.
The band featured a wide range of instruments including accordion, lap steel guitar, banjo and trumpet, as well as the standard drums, guitar and bass.
Cypher in the Snow released several recordings including a single with Outpunk, the first independent record label devoted to queer punk; an album on Candy Ass Records; and a split single with Sleater- Kinney, the" Free to Fight" single, dedicated to self- defense for women.
They also performed live and were interviewed in the film" She's Real, Worse Than Queer" by Lucy Thane.
After the group parted ways Anna Joy, now Anna Joy Springer, devoted herself to writing and toured with Sister Spit, the all- women writers and poets touring company.
Juliana Snapper and Paula Cronan began collaborations on intermedia art projects including video and installations, and regularly show work; as well, in 2005 Juliana toured with Ron Athey performing their operatic collaboration," The Judas Cradle".
Lala
Hulse joined the band The Whoreshoes.
Margaret Hitchcock started the all dyke/ genderqueer bands Dyspecific and The Galloping Sea in San Francisco.
Daniela
Sea became an actor, appearing on the television show" The L Word", as the transgender character introduced as" Moira Sweeney", now" Max Sweeney".
Rusten played in several punk bands, including the all female Harum- Scarum.
Ulla McKnight( Imd) was awarded a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her research focuses on the requirements of HIV specialist antenatal care in high resource locations.
Réal Bossé
Réal Bossé is a Canadian actor from Quebec who performs mostly in francophone films and television.
He won a Jutra Award in 2008 as Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in" Continental, a Film Without Guns", as well as two Gémeaux Award in 2011 for writing and acting in the television series" 19- 2".
Ming Luhulima
Ming Luhulima aka Lou Lima was a well known Netherlands based recording artist originally from the Maluku Islands which were part of the Dutch East Indies.
He made multiple recordings during his career.
One of the artists he was closely associated with was Rudi Wairata.
Not only did Luhulima come from the same country as Wairata, he also recorded music in the same genre.
He was also a member of the Amboina Serenaders and the Mena Moeria Minstrels.
He also led the Krontjong Ensemble Pantja Warna.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Bill Martin (basketball)
William Martin( born August 16, 1962) is a retired American professional basketball player.
He was a 6' 7"( 201 cm) 205 lb( 93 kg) forward and played collegiately at Georgetown University from 1981 – 85.
Martin was selected with the 2nd pick of the second round in the 1985 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers.
He played 66 games for them in 1985- 86, averaging 5.0 points, 1.9 rebounds and 0.8 assists per game.
In his second and third seasons he played with the New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns, respectively.
After his basketball career he later was married& had a son.
Then divorced and later re married and had a daughter named Anna Joy.
He now is an assistant coach for the Tri-Valley High School basketball team in Downs, IL.
The Bottle (2000 film)
The Bottle is a Canadian comedy- drama film, directed by Alain Desrochers and released in 2000.
The film stars Réal Bossé and François Papineau as Réal and François, two longtime friends who decide to recover a beer bottle, containing a paper on which they wrote down their hopes and dreams for the future, which they buried 15 years earlier in the back yard of Antoine( Jean Lapointe), a grumpy old man.
The film's cast also includes Hélène Loiselle, Pascale Bussières, Louis Champagne, Sylvie Moreau and Jean- Pierre Ferland.
Desrochers received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 21st Genie Awards.
At the 3rd Jutra Awards, Papineau was nominated for Best Actor, Loiselle was nominated for Best Actress, and Moreau was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
Anna Joy Springer
Anna Joy Springer is an American author, visual artist, feminist punk performer, and an associate professor of writing at University of California, San Diego, Springer is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award( 2010) and the Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Visual Arts and Performance( 2013).
The Marsh (2002 film)
The Marsh is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2002.
Set in Eastern Europe during the 19th century, the film stars Gregory Hlady and Paul Ahmarani as Alexandre and Ulysse, two social outcasts who settle on a haunted marsh on the outskirts of a village, but become wrongly suspected of criminal wrongdoing after a woman from the village disappears.
The film's cast also includes Gabriel Gascon, Karina Aktouf, James Hyndman, Réal Bossé and Alex Ivanovici.
The film premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.
Gascon received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 23rd Genie Awards.
The film received six Prix Jutra nominations at the 5th Jutra Awards, for Best Film, Best Director( Nguyen), Best Actor( Ahmarani), Best Screenplay( Nguyen), Best Cinematography( Eric Cayla and Daniel Vincelette), and Best Art Direction( Monique Dion).
Woldemar von Seidlitz
Woldemar von Seidlitz( 1 June 1850, in St Petersburg – 12 January 1922, in Dresden) was a Russian- born German art historian.
He studied economics at the universities of Dorpat and Heidelberg, followed by studies of art history at Leipzig as a pupil of Anton Springer.
From 1879 to 1884 he worked as a directorial assistant at the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, then from 1885 to 1918 served as an executive councilor to the Directorate- General of the Royal Collections for Art and Science in Dresden.

Question: Were Réal Bossé and Anna Joy Springer from the same country?
Answer: no