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America's Credit Union Museum is located in Manchester, New Hampshire, on the site of the first credit union founded in the United States. The... museum, at 418-420 Notre Dame Avenue, is housed at the original location for St. Mary’s Cooperative Credit Association, renamed in 1925 to La Caisse Populaire Ste.-Marie, or “Bank of the People”, St. Mary’s. In 1996, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the "Building at 418-420 Notre Dame Ave." What is now the museum was formerly a three-story, three-family dwelling belonging to Joseph Boivin, the manager of the St. Mary's Cooperative Credit Association. Boivin started the credit union with the help of Monsignor Pierre Hevey and Alphonse Desjardins. The building was donated to the museum by Mr. & Mrs. Armand Lemire. To create the museum, the first two floors were converted into exhibit space about credit union history in the United States. The first floor pays tribute to the founding era of the credit union from 1908-1933.
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Sarah Kate Silverman is an American comedian, writer, actress, singer and musician. Her satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial... topics such as racism, sexism, and religion. Silverman first gained notice as a writer and occasional performer on Saturday Night Live. She starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010, on Comedy Central. She often performs her act mocking bigotry and stereotypes of ethnic groups and religious denominations by having her comic character endorse them in an ironic fashion. Sarah Silverman, the youngest of four daughters, was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. Her mother, Beth Ann Halpin, was George McGovern's personal campaign photographer and founded the theater company New Thalian Players. Her father, Donald Silverman, was a social worker by training who ran the discount clothing store Crazy Sophie's Outlet. She was raised without religion, though she is ethnically Jewish.
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Christopher Stone was an American actor. Stone appeared on film and television from the early 1970s to his death in 1995. Stone and his wife, Dee... Wallace both appeared together in a number of films including the classic horror films The Howling and Cujo . They also shared top billing in the family series The New Lassie , in which he sometimes served as director. In the 1970-1971 season, Stone co-starred with Broderick Crawford, Mike Farrell, and Skip Homeier in the CBS medical drama The Interns, based on a film of the same title. Stone played Dr. Jim "Pooch" Hardin; Crawford was cast as the crusty hospital administrator; Farrell was Dr. Sam Marsh, and Homeier portrayed Dr. Hugh Jacoby. The Interns aired for one season of 24 episodes. In 1975, Stone guest starred in an episode of the CBS family drama Three for the Road. He co-starred as Cass Garrett in the CBS series Spencer's Pilots, which aired only six episodes from September 17 to November 19, 1976. Gene Evans starred as Spencer Parish, the owner of Spencer Aviation, a charter pilot service.
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Sam Huntington is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his starring role as werewolf Josh Levinson in the Syfy series, Being Human.... Huntington was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His mother, Christine Stabile, owned and operated the Black Box Theatre, where Huntington started his career. Huntington's great-uncle was actor Ralph Bellamy. When Bellamy died, his Academy Award for lifetime achievement was given to Huntington. On August 12, 2006, he married his girlfriend of five years, actress Rachel Klein. The two wed in Huntington's hometown before heading off to Turtle Island Resort in Fiji for their honeymoon. The couple has a son named Charlie, and a daughter. Huntington's first role was in the 1996 television movie Harvest of Fire, which starred Lolita Davidovich. He then appeared opposite Tim Allen in Disney's Jungle 2 Jungle the following year. Roles in the films Detroit Rock City, Not Another Teen Movie, Rolling Kansas, Freshman Orientation, In Enemy Hands and River's End followed, alongside guest appearances on CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Law & Order, and Veronica Mars.
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Christopher Stone was an American actor. Stone appeared on film and television from the early 1970s to his death in 1995. Stone and his wife, Dee... Wallace both appeared together in a number of films including the classic horror films The Howling and Cujo . They also shared top billing in the family series The New Lassie , in which he sometimes served as director. In the 1970-1971 season, Stone co-starred with Broderick Crawford, Mike Farrell, and Skip Homeier in the CBS medical drama The Interns, based on a film of the same title. Stone played Dr. Jim "Pooch" Hardin; Crawford was cast as the crusty hospital administrator; Farrell was Dr. Sam Marsh, and Homeier portrayed Dr. Hugh Jacoby. The Interns aired for one season of 24 episodes. In 1975, Stone guest starred in an episode of the CBS family drama Three for the Road. He co-starred as Cass Garrett in the CBS series Spencer's Pilots, which aired only six episodes from September 17 to November 19, 1976. Gene Evans starred as Spencer Parish, the owner of Spencer Aviation, a charter pilot service.
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Afshan Azad is a British actress best known for playing the role of Padma Patil in the Harry Potter film series. Afshan Azad is from Longsight,... Manchester, United Kingdom. She is of Bangladeshi descent. She attended Whalley Range High School, and then studied AS-level Chemistry, Biology, English and Business Studies at Xaverian College in Rusholme. Azad is known for her performances as Padma Patil in four of the Harry Potter films, starting with 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Azad earned the part when casting agents visited her school, and after having attended several auditions, chose her for the part. On 29 June 2010, Azad’s father and brother appeared in Manchester Magistrates' Court, charged with threatening to kill her. Azad’s father and brother attacked her because of her relationship with a non-Muslim man . They were released on bail. The brother of the actress was also charged with “assault occasioning actual bodily harm.” Afshan is apparently staying with her friends in London.
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Matthew Charles "Matt" Czuchry is an American actor. He portrayed Logan Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls and in 2009 began co-starring as Cary Agos on... the CBS television series The Good Wife. Czuchry was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee. His father, Andrew Czuchry, is a professor at East Tennessee State University, and his mother, Sandra, is a homemaker. He is of Ukrainian descent on his father's side. He has two brothers and a sister. He graduated from Science Hill High School in 1995. Czuchry graduated with honors in 1999 from the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science. He won the Mr. College of Charleston pageant in 1998. Czuchry attended college on a tennis scholarship, captained the men's tennis team, and was an NCAA ranked player in the Southern Conference He took one theater class in college, and his professor encouraged him to change his major to drama. It was during his first role in The WB's Young Americans that he met Kate Bosworth, whom he dated from 2000-02.
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Thomas Kopache is an American actor. Kopache was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of Dorothy E. . He is known as Assistant Secretary of... State Bob Slatterly in The West Wing and for various roles in the Star Trek franchise. He has also appeared in the stage productions of As You Like It as the Barnished Duke and in Antigone as Creon. He is one of few people who have appeared in all of the Star Trek television series, other than the original, and, along with Jeffrey Combs, J.G. Hertzler and Randy Oglesby, is one of only four actors to portray as many as seven characters. His largest Star Trek role was as Kira Taban, the father of Kira Nerys in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Kopache played Taban in "Ties of Blood and Water" and "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night". Kopache had earlier played a Romulan in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Next Phase", a hologram in "Emergence" and a Starfleet officer in Star Trek Generations. In 1994 he portrayed "Tu'Pari" in the Babylon 5 episode "The Parliament of Dreams". Kopache makes a brief appearance in No Country For Old Men as a shoe salesman.
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Jasmine Dustin is an American film and television actress and model. Dustin has been in magazines such as GQ, Maxim, FHM, Cosmopolitan and Teen... Magazine. Dustin has appeared in advertisements for companies such as Fredricks of Hollywood, William Rast, Saturn and Romeo and Juliet Couture, . In 2009 Jasmine starred in "The Diet Life" that went on to win Best Feature film and best directing. http://www.belairfilmfestival.com/awards/prize-winners/ In 2010, Dustin was in Iron Man 2, Knight Rider and CSI: Miami. She is also in the Michael Madsen film Let the Game Begin set to come out in 2011. Jasmine is currently filming another indie by the name of City Of Jerks which stars comedian Adam Goldberg. From 2008 to 2010 Dustin was one of the co-hosts for hit travel show GetOut on HDnet, where the bikini-clad girls traveled the world doing high adventure activities. Jasmine has become one of the faces of DuWop Cosmetics. Jasmine was just named the new "IT" girl in April 2011 issue of FHM.
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Patricia Lynn Racette is an American operatic soprano. A winner of the Richard Tucker Award in 1998, she has been a regular presence at major opera... houses internationally. Racette has enjoyed long-term partnerships with the San Francisco Opera, where she has been a regular performer since 1989, and with the Metropolitan Opera, where she has performed annually since 1995. Also active on the concert stage, Racette has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Possessing a strong, shining lyric soprano with a considerable amount of dramatic intensity, Racette has particularly excelled in the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi. Among her most well-known roles are Violetta in La traviata; Blanche de la Force and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites; both Mimì and Musetta in La bohème, the title heroine in Jenůfa; Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly; Alice Ford in Falstaff; Liu in Turandot; Desdemona in Otello; and Káťa in Káťa Kabanová.
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