Chas freeman first wife
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Ambassador Freeman has recently retired from Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the historic U.S. mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola.
Chas Freeman served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981. He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in 1972. In addition to his
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Charles Freeman (historian)
British historian (born 1947)
Charles P. Freeman (born 1947) is an Englishhistorian specialising in the history of ancient Greece and Rome. He is the author of numerous books on the ancient world including The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. He has taught courses on ancient history in Cambridge's Adult Education program and is a Historical Consultant to the Blue Guides. He also leads cultural study tours to Italy, Greece, and Turkey. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Early life and education
From an early age Freeman was passionate about history and spent his school holidays helping on archeological digs run by Ipswich Museum. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and after graduation spent a year teaching in Sudan.[1]
He also holds a master's degree in African history and politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and an additional master's degree in applied research in education from the University of East
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Born March 14, 1886 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Gillette was the youngest of ten children. Raised by a family of modest means, it was necessary for him to work his way through high school in Madison, Wisconsin. He never attended college or university.
Charles Freeman GilletteGillette experimented with several vocations, including teaching in a secondary school and serving as a nurse in a mental institution before becoming an apprentice at the firm of Warren Manning in Boston, Massachusetts in 1909. His decision was influenced by a love of landscape scenery encouraged by his father, a farmer and herbalist, and by his observation while a nurse that mental patients were often aided by exposure to pastoral landscapes and gardens.
Gillette distinguished himself in the Manning firm and was chosen to supervise the construction of Manning’s innovative plan for Richmond College in Westhampton, Virginia. Then, in 1912, a wealthy client sponsored Gillette’s two month tour of the major gardens and parks of Great Britain and Europe. He left the Manning office that same year and opened his
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