What is Sidney Ponson's life story?
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Sir Sidney Alton Ponson (born November 2, 1976, in Noord, Aruba) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals. Prior to signing with the Cardinals, Ponson played most of his career with the Baltimore Orioles. When he made his debut for the Orioles in 1998, he became the third player from Aruba to play in the major leagues.\n\nPonson attended Maria College in Aruba. He was picked up by the Orioles as an amateur in 1993. Except for a brief 2003 stint for the San Francisco Giants, he has spent his entire career in Baltimore.\n\nAfter the 2003 season, he was made a knight by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. (Aruba is a colony of the Netherlands.) This has earned him the nickname "Sir Sidney."\n\nPonson has acquired a reputation for being inconsistent, especially in relation to decision games. He has a strong fastball and a decent slider. He has also had problems with his weight over the last few years.\n\nIn 2003, he went 14-6 with a 3.77 ERA for the Orioles. Because Baltimore was not in contention for a playoff spot and Ponson was in the last year of his contract, the Orioles traded Ponson to the San Francisco Giants at the trading deadline for two Giants prospects (Kurt Ainsworth and Damian Moss). At the end of the 2003 season, Ponson re-signed with the Orioles for a 3 year, 22.5 million dollar contract.\n\nIn 2004, Ponson was the opening day starter for Baltimore. However, he started off disastrously; his record was 3-12 by the All-Star Break. He rebounded for as strong second half, going 8-3. He finished with an 11-15 record and a 5.30 ERA.\n\nOn December 25, 2004, Ponson was arrested in Aruba and charged with assaulting an Aruban judge following an incident about a complaint of Ponson's handling of his powerboat. He spent 11 days in jail, but the charges were dropped after he reached a settlement that included restitution, community service and contributions to local charities on the island. In January 2005, he was charged with driving under the influence in Broward County, Florida. Because of these activities, it was thought that he would not be able to enter Canada to pitch in a series against the Toronto Blue Jays in May 2005. However, a visa was later granted, and he was able to make his scheduled start.\n\nBaltimore attempted to trade Ponson to San Diego for first baseman Phil Nevin shortly before the 2005 trade deadline, but the deal was canceled when Nevin invoked his no-trade clause. Nevin eventually was traded to Texas.\n\nEarly on the morning of August 25, 2005, Ponson was arrested for driving under the influence and driving while impaired on southbound Interstate 95 near downtown Baltimore, Maryland. He was stopped for following too closely and was subsequently arrested for the traffic violation, DUI, and DWI; he was later released. This was his second drunk-driving incident of 2005.\n\nOn September 1, 2005, the Orioles released Ponson and voided his contract, saying that his infractions with the law went against a morals clause in Major League Baseball contracts. A week later, on September 8, the Major League Baseball Players Association filed a grievance on Ponson's behalf.\n\nOn December 12, 2005, Ponson was sentenced to five days in the Baltimore city jail after finding him guilty of driving while impaired. He was also fined $535. His jail term is expected to begin at 4pm on December 13.\n\nOn December 21, 2005, Ponson signed a one-year contract with the St. Louis Cardinals calling for a $1 million salary with the ability to earn an additional $1.5 million in incentives.
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A couple of pics of him with his wife:\n\nhttp://www.chicagobears.com/uploads/photos/perm/main/IBPMOJJOFOML/lovie_instory.jpg\n\nhttp://stage.diabetes.org/ueimages/LovieMaryAnnSmith.jpg\n\nLike most celebs, I'm sure he prefers to keep his family fairly under wraps most of the time.
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Follow the link below for his biography!
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Wikipedia has a great article detailing his life:
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charles bronson?\n\nhope you're not thinking of keanu reeves though!!
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You could sift through these....\n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000548/\n\nDate of death (details)\n    18 May 1995
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try biography.com\ngoogle.com/images
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i found a website about his life but didnt mention about his childhood.  but just look to the websites and hope u can get any other informations
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He sure led an interesting life:\n\nhttp://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html
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not sure http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559994/Detective_Story.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/murder/peopleevents/e_novel.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=267 http://www.funtrivia.com/ask.cfm?action=details&qnid=1506 ------------------------- The First Detective Story\nMonsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a Frenchman of unusually acute -- if almost "diseased" -- intelligence, informs the police that an orangutan committed a seemingly unsolvable murder. Thus is born, in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the world's first sleuth, and the first story of detective fiction. Poe's focus on the gruesome nature of crimes -- and the intellectual triumph in their solution -- opened a door for readers to approach their fears and fascinations about crime and death
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Mussolini was born in a medium-sized village named Predappio in the state of Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna. He was named Benny after Mexican reformist President Benito Juárez; the names Andrea and Amilcare were for Italian socialists Andrea Costa and Amilcare Cipriani. His mother, Rosa Maltoni, was a teacher who believed education was extremely important. His father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith who often encouraged Benny to disobey authority (other than his own). He adored his father, but his love was never reciprocated. Like his father, who was a member of the first Socialist International, Benito became a socialist.\n\nBy age eight, he was banned from his mother's church for pinching people at the pews and throwing stones at them outside after church. He was sent to boarding school later that year and at age 11 he was expelled from school for stabbing a fellow student in the hand and throwing an ink pot at a teacher. He did, however, receive good grades, and he qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901.\n\nIn 1902 he emigrated to Switzerland to escape military service. During a period when he was unable to find a permanent job there, he was arrested for vagrancy and jailed for one night. Later, after becoming involved in the socialist movement, he was deported and returned to Italy to do his military service. He returned to Switzerland immediately, and a second attempt to deport him was halted when Swiss socialist parliamentarians held an emergency debate to discuss his treatment.\n\nSubsequently, a job was found for him in the city of Trento, ethnically Italian but then under the control of Austria-Hungary, in February 1909. There he did office work for the local socialist party and edited its newspaper L'Avvenire del Lavoratore ("The future of the worker"). It didn't take him long to make contact with irredentist, socialist politician and journalist Cesare Battisti, and to agree to write for and edit the latter's newspaper Il Popolo ("The People") in addition to the work he did for the party. For Battisti's publication he wrote a novel, Claudia Particella, l'amante del cardinale, which was published serially in 1910. He was later to dismiss it as written merely to smear the religious authorities. The novel was subsequently translated into English as The Cardinal's Mistress.\n\nBy the time his novel hit the pages of Il Popolo, though, Mussolini was already back in Italy. His polemic style and growing defiance of the Imperial-Royal authority and, as hinted, anti-clericalism put him in trouble with the authorities until he was finally deported at the end of September. After his return to Italy (prompted by his mother's illness and death) he joined the staff of the "Central Organ of the Socialist Party" [1], Avanti! ("Forward!"). Mussolini had a brother, Arnaldo, who would later become the editor of Il Popolo d'Italia, the official newspaper of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party.
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try this\n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000386/bio
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He was a real person. I don't remember specific details, but he was commisioned by the Prince of England to go and kill prostitutes with whom the Prince had slept. He would remove certain body parts, namely the uterus, in order to destroy any evidence of the Prince's debauchery.
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A life VERY WELL LIVED in the field of medicine and saving lives; the son of two immigrant European parents in New York; at five years old, he knew and bragged about the fact that he was going to be a doctor; a World War II medic and survivor; the founder of a prominent local physician's group practice; he met and married a wonderful woman who bore him six children, and subsequently nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren (so far); lots of honors and awards for outstanding service to his career and his community, including one that was established in his name for future generations; a fantastic sense of humor with a story for every occasion;  survived the deaths of two of his children, my brothers, with great dignity and grace, as well as heartache; I've never known a more incredible man, because his kind doesn't exist any more.  He comes from an era of complete selflessness, duty, courage, faithfulness, and REAL family values!  Just last month, we had a 90th birthday celebration for him, one of the best days that I've ever lived!  I get choked up when I hear the song by Dan Fogelberg, Leader of the Band:\n\n"The leader of the band is tired, and his eyes are growing old.  But his blood runs through my instrument, and his song is in my soul.  My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man.  I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band".
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Check out:     www.imdb.com\n\n they have tons of info on all actors/artists which includes personal bio and acting history.
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Lucien Debray is mentioned is the literature "Count of Monte Cristo".  You can find a link to this listed below.  Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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Hi there ... here you go ... anything and everything about him:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/walter-payton?method=22