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The New Jersey State Prison , formerly known as Trenton State Prison, is a state prison in Trenton, New Jersey operated by the New Jersey Department... of Corrections. It accommodated over 1,900 prisoners as of January, 2005. NJSP operates two security units and provides a high level of custodial supervision and control. Professional treatment services, such as education and social work, are a priority at the facility. The Bureau of State Use Industries operates the bedding and clothing shops located in the facility. NJSP also housed New Jersey's death row until the state banned capital punishment in 2007. Its inmates include John Martini, who was condemned for the kidnapping and murder of a Bergen County businessman, and Jesse Timmendequas, who was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka. This crime inspired the passing of Megan's Law, which requires communities to be notified when a convicted sex offender moves into their area. Many states have subsequently adopted similar measures. NJSP has been parodied as the Alderney State Correctional Facility in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Established in 1703, St. Michael's Church in downtown Trenton, New Jersey, is the founding parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. Its present... building located at 140 North Warren Street was built between 1747 and1748 and was renovated in 1810 and 1847 to 1848,. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1982 as St. Michael's Episcopal Church. Its congregation, now a mission of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, has involved itself in the history and culture of the city of Trenton from its founding in 1703 to the present. St. Michael's was organized as a parish in 1703 in Hopewell Township. A Church of England building was erected on "Breese Farm" in 1704. In 1708 the parish was gifted with articles from Queen Anne of Great Britain. These articles now reside in the New Jersey State Museum. The main sanctuary of St. Michael's Church was built 1747–1748 at its present location on North Warren St. in Trenton. The building was extensively renovated in 1810. The distinctive turrets facing Warren Street remain from the 1810 renovation, but the bell tower is no longer standing.
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Trenton Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 142 E. Hanover Street in Trenton, New Jersey. It was built in 1776 and added to... the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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The William Trent House , the oldest house in Trenton was built for William Trent. He founded the eponymous town, which became the capital of New... Jersey. It has served as the residence for several Governors. During the Summer of 1798, the federal government evacuated to Trenton to escape a yellow fever epidemic plaguing the temporary national capital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following Congress's adjournment in July , President John Adams spent the rest of the summer and most of the fall at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts. Trent House housed federal offices until November, when the danger was deemed to have passed. Recently, the building has been undergoing renovation including a new visitors center, funded by a grant from the New Jersey Historic Trust. It serves as a historic house museum.
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George Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds... – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much of his time composing music for film scores and eventually, television. His compositions for the concert hall, ballet, and films became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles, , an autobiography, a mystery novel, newspaper and music columns. In 1941 he patented a "Secret Communications System" with actress Hedy Lamarr that used a code to synchronize a frequency hopping receiver and transmitter, a technique now known as spread spectrum which is now widely used in telecommunications. Antheil was born Georg Carl Johann Antheil and grew up in a family of German immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey. His father owned a local shoe store in Trenton.
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Dennis Keith Rodman is a retired American Hall of Fame professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons, San... Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" and "The Worm" and was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities. Playing small forward in his early years before becoming a power forward, Rodman earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and was voted NBA Defensive Player of the Year twice. He also led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA championships . His biography at NBA.com states that he is "arguably the best rebounding forward in NBA history". On April 1, 2011, the Pistons retired Rodman's #10 jersey. Later that same year, Rodman was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Rodman experienced an unhappy childhood and was shy and introverted in his early years. After aborting a suicide attempt in 1993, he reinvented himself as a "bad boy" and became notorious for numerous controversial antics.
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Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom... Who's the Boss?, Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth "Liz" Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit. She is currently appearing on Broadway as Silda in Other Desert Cities. Light was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the daughter of Pearl Sue , a model, and Sidney Light, an accountant. Light graduated from high school in 1966 at St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy, now Doane Academy, in Burlington, New Jersey. She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a degree in drama. She recalled the university as "rigorous" and "amazing". Afterwards, she started out on stage, making her professional debut in Richard III at the California Shakespeare Festival in 1970, before moving to Broadway to star in A Doll's House in 1975. She also starred in the 1976 Broadway play Herzl. Light also acted for such theatre companies as the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and the Seattle Repertory Theatre. In the late 1970s, Light went through a real crisis after a period of not landing any parts.
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Embeth Jean Davidtz is an American-born actress who spent much of her early life in South Africa. Davidtz was born in Lafayette, Indiana, while her... father was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University. Her parents, John and Jean, later moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and then back to their native South Africa, when Davidtz was nine years old. Davidtz's mother is of French descent and her father of English descent; she had to learn Afrikaans before attending school classes in South Africa, where her father took up a teaching post at Potchefstroom University. She graduated from The Glen High School in Pretoria in 1983, and earned a degree in Drama & English Literature from Rhodes University in Grahamstown. Davidtz made her professional acting debut at age 21 with CAPAB in Cape Town, playing "Juliet" in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet, at the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre.
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Tyrus "Ty" Richard Treadway is a game show host, actor and talk show host. Treadway had co-hosted Soap Talk with Lisa Rinna. Ty was born and raised... in Trenton, New Jersey to Richard and Mary Lou Treadway. Ty was the youngest of six siblings . After high school, Ty received a scholarship for soccer and attended a couple of colleges before graduating with a degree in accounting. He went to work for the New Jersey State Legislature as an accountant and computer systems engineer but took part in bodybuilding competitions on the side. He eventually won the title of Mr. Natural Pennsylvania. He often had a "Ty Training" segment on his later talk show, Soap Talk. However, Ty found his job boring and depressing so he decided to start modeling and acting. He appeared in several magazines, theater productions and commercials. In May 2000, Ty landed the role of Dr. Colin MacIver on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. His character was killed off after a year, but he returned as his nicer twin brother, Troy, and appeared off and on from 2001–2004. In June 2002, Ty pulled double duty as soap star and talk show host.
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Bob Ryan is an American sportswriter for The Boston Globe. He has been described as "the quintessential American sportswriter" and a basketball guru... and is well known for his coverage of the sport including his famous stories covering the Boston Celtics in the 1970s. After graduating from Boston College, Ryan started as a sports intern for the Globe on the same day as Peter Gammons. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Ryan went to high school at The Lawrenceville School from 1960 to 1964. Ryan graduated from Boston College as a history major in 1968. He and his wife Elaine have a daughter Jessica, and a son Keith who died in 2008. They are grandparents of triplets. They have been married since 1969. Today Ryan lives in Hingham, Massachusetts. The dedication page in Forty Eight Minutes, one of Ryan's books, says, "To Elaine Ryan: In the next life, maybe you'll get a nine-to-five man who makes seven figures." Ryan has also done humanitarian fundraisers for years to help inner-city teenagers with their educations. On January 28, 2008 his 37 year old son Keith, was found dead in his home in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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George Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds... – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much of his time composing music for film scores and eventually, television. His compositions for the concert hall, ballet, and films became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles, , an autobiography, a mystery novel, newspaper and music columns. In 1941 he patented a "Secret Communications System" with actress Hedy Lamarr that used a code to synchronize a frequency hopping receiver and transmitter, a technique now known as spread spectrum which is now widely used in telecommunications. Antheil was born Georg Carl Johann Antheil and grew up in a family of German immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey. His father owned a local shoe store in Trenton.
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Dennis Keith Rodman is a retired American Hall of Fame professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons, San... Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" and "The Worm" and was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities. Playing small forward in his early years before becoming a power forward, Rodman earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and was voted NBA Defensive Player of the Year twice. He also led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA championships . His biography at NBA.com states that he is "arguably the best rebounding forward in NBA history". On April 1, 2011, the Pistons retired Rodman's #10 jersey. Later that same year, Rodman was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Rodman experienced an unhappy childhood and was shy and introverted in his early years. After aborting a suicide attempt in 1993, he reinvented himself as a "bad boy" and became notorious for numerous controversial antics.
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Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom... Who's the Boss?, Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth "Liz" Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit. She is currently appearing on Broadway as Silda in Other Desert Cities. Light was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the daughter of Pearl Sue , a model, and Sidney Light, an accountant. Light graduated from high school in 1966 at St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy, now Doane Academy, in Burlington, New Jersey. She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a degree in drama. She recalled the university as "rigorous" and "amazing". Afterwards, she started out on stage, making her professional debut in Richard III at the California Shakespeare Festival in 1970, before moving to Broadway to star in A Doll's House in 1975. She also starred in the 1976 Broadway play Herzl. Light also acted for such theatre companies as the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and the Seattle Repertory Theatre. In the late 1970s, Light went through a real crisis after a period of not landing any parts.
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Tyrus "Ty" Richard Treadway is a game show host, actor and talk show host. Treadway had co-hosted Soap Talk with Lisa Rinna. Ty was born and raised... in Trenton, New Jersey to Richard and Mary Lou Treadway. Ty was the youngest of six siblings . After high school, Ty received a scholarship for soccer and attended a couple of colleges before graduating with a degree in accounting. He went to work for the New Jersey State Legislature as an accountant and computer systems engineer but took part in bodybuilding competitions on the side. He eventually won the title of Mr. Natural Pennsylvania. He often had a "Ty Training" segment on his later talk show, Soap Talk. However, Ty found his job boring and depressing so he decided to start modeling and acting. He appeared in several magazines, theater productions and commercials. In May 2000, Ty landed the role of Dr. Colin MacIver on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. His character was killed off after a year, but he returned as his nicer twin brother, Troy, and appeared off and on from 2001–2004. In June 2002, Ty pulled double duty as soap star and talk show host.
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Jean Acker was an American film actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s. She was perhaps best known as the estranged... wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. Acker was born Harriet Acker in Trenton, New Jersey where she attended school. She performed in vaudeville until she moved to California in 1919. After arriving in Hollywood, Acker became the protegee and lover of Alla Nazimova, a film actress whose clout and contacts enabled Acker to negotiate a $200 per week contract with a movie studio. Acker appeared in numerous films during the 1910s and 1920s, but by the early 1930s she began appearing in small, mostly uncredited film roles. She made her last onscreen appearance in the 1955 film How to Be Very, Very Popular, opposite Betty Grable. After meeting and befriending the then-struggling actor Rudolph Valentino at a party, they entered a two-month courtship and married on November 6, 1919. Acker quickly had regrets and locked him out of their hotel bedroom on their wedding night. The marriage was reportedly never consummated.
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Sommore is an actress and comedienne from Trenton, New Jersey. She is the half sister of actress Nia Long. Rambough attended Morris Brown College,... and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Sommore has appeared on various shows including Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo, Comicview, and BET's Live from L.A. She has also had guest appearances on television sitcoms The Hughleys and The Parkers, and she has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She also roasted Flavor Flav on Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav. In 2008, she appeared as one of the mob members on several episodes of the game show 1 vs. 100. Her film appearances include 2004's Soul Plane, A Miami Tail, Friday After Next, and Something New. Sommore and fellow African American female comedians Mo'Nique, Laura Hayes, and Adele Givens were the stars on the Queens of Comedy tour, which was filmed and subsequently shown on Showtime and released on DVD. Sommore was a winning participant on the sixth season of Celebrity Fit Club. She lost 11 pounds during the show.
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