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  1. Thomas Jefferson Memorial -- Father
    Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743[1] into a family closely related to some of the most prominent individuals in Virginia, the third of eight children. His mother was Jane Randolph, daughter of Isham Randolph, a ship's captain and sometime planter, and first cousin to Peyton Randolph. Jefferson's father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor who owned plantations in Albemarle County (Shadwell, then Edge Hill, Virginia.) He was of English descent and belonged to the Haplogroup K2.
  2. Thandie Newton -- Nick Nolte
    Thandie Newton began her life in Zambia with parents Nick, an English artist, and Nyasha, a Zimbabawean health-care worker who ... happens to be a princess of the Shona tribe. When Thandie [pronounced: Tan-dee] was five, political unrest caused her family to flee Africa to England where they returned to Nick's hometown of Penzance where she and her brother James were raised.
  3. Sam Neill -- Jurassic Park
    Neill continued to undertake challenging roles in a wide variety of projects. He was well-cast as the wealthy man who brings home a robot to aid around the house in "Bicentennial Man" (1999) and earned critical praise for a pair of Australian-produced films: "My Mother Frank" (1999), which cast him as a chauvinistic, conservative college professor who runs up against a fifty-something co-ed (Sinead Cusack), and "The Dish" (2000), in which he was the cardigan-wearing, imperturbable scientist in charge of the telescope that was to relay signals of the American moon landing in 1969. In between, the actor offered a fine turn as US President Thomas Jefferson in the CBS miniseries "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal" (2000). Following another real-life portrayal on the small screen (this time, the commander of a US submarine trapped underwater in the 2001 NBC movie "Submerged"), Neill revisited his role as paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in "Jurassic Park III" (2001).
  4. Taboos -- United States
    Taboos are never easy to discuss, but on occasion, political advantage goes to the person who speaks the unspeakable. Shintaro Ishihara accomplished this with his book, "The Japan That Can Say No." He stated things about U.S. dependency on Japanese technological superiority, about Japanese national interests and about Japan's divergence from the United States over time that no one dared to say quite so boldly, and credibly, given his position in the LDP.
  5. Thomas Jefferson Memorial -- American Independence
    Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States and one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence. Biographer James Parton said Thomas Jefferson could "calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play the violin." Besides serving two terms as president, Jefferson served as vice-president, secretary of state, minister to France, congressman, governor of Virginia; he ... founded the University of Virginia and served as president of the American Philosophical Society. For all that, Jefferson is best remembered as a champion of human rights and the lead draftsman of the Declaration of Independence. High points of his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon and the exploration of the west by Lewis and Clark. The third person to be president, Jefferson followed John Adams as president and was succeeded by James Madison.
  6. Mare Winningham -- Elmo's Fire
    Mare Winningham has appeared in more than 50 movies for television, including two previous "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentations: "The Boys Next Door," on CBS, and "Love is Never Silent." Her other television movie credits include "The Young Pioneers," "Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues," "The Poet," "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal," as well as the miniseries "The Thorn Birds and "Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke." Winningham has appeared in many television series over the years, ranging from "Starsky and Hutch" to "ER" to "Six Feet Under." She starred in two CBS series: "Clubhouse" and "The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire." Her feature films include "St. Elmo's Fire," "Nobody's Fool," "Turner & Hootch," "Wyatt Earp" and "Georgia."
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