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The 29 Diner is a diner in Fairfax, Virginia, located near the intersection of Route 29 and Virginia State Route 123. The 29 Diner opened on July... 20, 1947. It was built by the Mountain View Diner Company of Singac, New Jersey. D.T. "Bill" Glascock purchased the diner and had it shipped to a strip of land that he owned in Fairfax, Virginia. Glascock and his wife, Elvira "Curly," ran the diner for the first several years, and thereafter leased the building to a succession of business owners. In 1973, the Tastee Diner company bought the location and it became the Tastee 29 Diner." In 1992, a declaration was made for the diner to be a historic site. Marc Christian Wagner, an architectural historian from the Charlottesville-based Preservation Associates of Virginia organization wrote the statement of significance. The opening of the statement declares: "The Tastee 29 Diner is a rare survivor among the once-numerous streamlined Moderns diners that operated in the United States. While it in rare to find one of these 1940's diners still standing, it is even more unusual to find one still in operation.
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Built in 1835, the William Gunnell House is a contributing property of City of Fairfax Historic District . The building, located on 10520 Main... Street, is noted for being the location of Confederate John S. Mosby's raid on Union forces on March 9, 1863. The William Gunnell House has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987. The house is currently a private residence.
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Victoria Vaughn is a fashion model and actress based in Fairfax, Va. A chameleon, she enjoys modeling a wide range of fashions. In March 2010, author... Stephen Pytak hired her to model dressed as the main character of a series of novels he wrote, "Corinn Michaels," "The .40 Caliber Mouse." He photographed her for photos to be used in his books and cast her in a few short films he put on DVD for his fans, including "C," "With Love" and "Angel 116.
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Brian David Kendrick is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under his real name. Before joining TNA... he spent several years wrestling for World Wrestling Entertainment, where he wrestled under his name, as Spanky, and finally as "The" Brian Kendrick. He is notable for his signature entrance where he sprints into the ring. Kendrick has wrestled for numerous promotions in his career. While situated in these promotions, he has won various championships, both in tag team and singles competition. He was the last ever MCW Southern Light Heavyweight Champion, a title he held three times, and also won the MCW Southern Tag Team Championship with American Dragon. In addition, Kendrick was the first NWA International Junior Heavyweight Champion. During his time in WWE, Kendrick and his tag team partner Paul London became the longest reigning WWE Tag Team Champions since the title's inception. Together they also held the World Tag Team Championship for a brief period. Kendrick was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and is the son of Barbara Kendrick and the oldest of three children—a brother named Neal and a sister named Shannon.
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Shanelle Workman-Gray is an American actress. She is best known for playing Sarah "Flash" Roberts on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from... February 2003 to January 2004. Currently, Workman is the voice of "Wendy", the Wendy's Fast Food Chain, in nationwide commercials. When she was younger she appeared with fellow soap actress Eden Riegel in the Broadway production of Les Misérables. In 2005, Workman started filming the movie Jump Shot, where she played a student of Ray Liotta. Workman returned to soaps as Gabriela "Gaby" Moreno Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful in March 2005 but was let go by the producers of the soap in October 2005 due to storyline purposes and because the character never caught on with viewers. She provided the voice of Caren Velázquez from the video game Dino Crisis 3, Pasadena O'Possum in Crash Tag Team Racing, as well as the leading role as the voice of Milliarde in the GameCube game Baten Kaitos Origins. She also played the role of Larxene in Kingdom Hearts: Re:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. She also provided the voice for the character Alestia Lallis in the rpg Mass Effect.
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Adam Birch is a retired American professional wrestler, is signed to World Wrestling Entertainment , and training in WWE's developmental territory... Florida Championship Wrestling, as Joey Mercury. Birch is a one-time world heavyweight champion having held the 3PW World Heavyweight Championship once. Birch was trained by fellow wrestler Jimmy Cicero and made his wrestling debut in October 1996. The following year, he began competing for Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation , in which he began competing in tag team competition, where he captured the MEWF Tag Team Championship, alongside Christian York. Throughout the mid-1990s, Birch competed in various independent promotions, where he and York continued to work as a team. It was also during that time that he won various championships in singles and tag team competition. In 2004, Birch signed with the WWE and was assigned to their developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling in Louisville, Kentucky. While situated at OVW, he was placed in tag team competition, alongside Johnny Nitro, in which they won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship on one occasion.
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Jason Spence is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Christian York. Spence trained under Cueball Carmichael and Jimmy... Z in the IPWA Training School and had his in ring debut at the age of 19 on December 7, 1996 in Middleport, Ohio in a 30-minute Hardcore Ironman match against Joey Matthews. Adopting the name "Christian York", Spence wrestled for the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts , Southern Championship Wrestling, Steel City Wrestling, and numerous other independent promotions across the country. In OMEGA, York formed a stable known as the "Badstreet Boys", with Joey Matthews, as well as Shannon Moore and Shane Helms. The group had a boy band gimmick to capitalize on the bubble gum boy bands of pop culture. Eventually, all four members of the group signed three-year contracts with Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling after try-outs on Monday Night Nitro in the early summer of 1999. They stayed under contract until April 2000 when budget cuts were in order and management changed hands. York and Matthews went on to wrestle for numerous independent promotions, winning several tag team championships.
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Daniel Jason Sudeikis is an American actor and comedian best known for starring as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. He also has had a notable... breakthrough in the film industry in 2011, starring that year in Hall Pass, Horrible Bosses and A Good Old Fashioned Orgy. Sudeikis was born Daniel Jason Sudeikis in Fairfax, Virginia, the son of Kathryn , formerly a travel agent at Brennco who was president of the American Society of Travel Agents, and Dan Sudeikis, a vice president of business development. His uncle is actor George Wendt, who is best known for his role as Norm Peterson from Cheers. His maternal grandmother's father was photographer Tom Howard. He is of Lithuanian descent on his father's side and German and Irish on his mother's. As a child, Sudeikis moved with his family to Overland Park, Kansas, which he considers his hometown. He attended Brookridge Elementary School before transferring to Holy Cross Catholic School, both of which are located in Overland Park.
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Samuel James "Sam" Champion is the weather anchor of ABC's Good Morning America and weather editor of ABC News. Champion was born in Paducah,... Kentucky. He has a B.A. in broadcast news from Eastern Kentucky University, where he interned at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky. Champion is a veteran of ABC. He was also a veteran weatherman for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News in the New York City media market for seventeen years, and has continued to do fill-in work on WABC-TV since taking the network job full-time. He currently works on Good Morning America as a weatherman. He was also seen on a segment of World News with Diane Sawyer on January 4, 2010. He worked at WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky, and WJKS in Jacksonville, Florida. On WABC-TV, he had helmed the weekday weather forecasts since 1988, adding the latter two newscasts following Storm Field's departure from the station. In August 2006 Good Morning America announced that Champion was named to his current positions with GMA and ABC News, effective September 5, 2006. Champion is not a meteorologist, but gained weather forecasting knowledge through his broadcast work.
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