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Michael Collins may also refer to: Michael John Collins (Irish: Mícheál Eoin Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, served as Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, as Director of Intelligence for the IRA, as a member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Michael J. Collins (born 1941) is an Independent Teachta Dála (TD) for Limerick West. ... Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. ... Template:Redirect Template:Redirect U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ... Michael Collins is a professional footballer currently playing for Huddersfield Town in Coca-Cola League One. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Huddersfield Town Football Club are an English football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, who are currently playing in Coca-Cola League One. ... Michael P. Collins received his B.E. from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1964 and his Ph. ... Reinforced concrete at Sainte Jeanne dArc Church (Nice, France): architect Jacques Dror, 1926–1933 Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete in some countries, is concrete in which reinforcement bars (rebars) or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen the material that would otherwise be brittle. ... Mike Collins art used for the cover of 2000 AD #1433, featuring the main character from Amercian Gothic Mike Collins is a Wales-based comic book artist and writer and has been working in comics since the mid-1980s. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Michael Collins (born 1964) is an Irish-born author of novels and short stories. ... Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ... Deathlok (sometimes also referred to as The Demolisher) is a Marvel Comics character, a cyborg, created by Rich Buckler and Doug Moench. ...


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Michael Collins (astronaut) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (493 words)
Michael Collins (born in Rome, October 31, 1930) was an astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo space programs.
Collins orbited the Moon in the CSM "Columbia", while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed and walked on the lunar surface.
Collins has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a small lunar crater (near the Apollo 11 landing site) and asteroid 6471 are named in his honor.
Michael Collins (Irish leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3314 words)
Michael Collins was born in Sam's Cross, near Clonakilty, in County Cork, Ireland in 1890.
Michael's father, also called Michael Collins, had become a member of the republican Fenian movement when younger, but had left the movement and settled down to farming.
Collins was recorded as being a bright and precocious child, with a fiery temper and a passionate nationalism, spurred on by a local flsmith, James Santry, and later by a local school headmaster, Denis Lyons, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (an organization Collins would eventually become the leader of).
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