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1164
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1281
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1323
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Russia
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1332
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Domhnall II, Earl of Mar
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Edward Balliol
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1480
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1499
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Battle of Zonchio
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Venetian
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Ottoman
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1676
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Praying Indian
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John Alderman
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Metacomet
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Wampanoag
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King Philip's War
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1687
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Charles of Lorraine
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Ottomans
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Battle of Mohács
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1793
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Rhône-et-Loire
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Loire
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1806
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Santiago de Liniers
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Buenos Aires
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first British invasion
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1833
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Chicago
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1851
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Isaac Singer
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sewing machine
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1877
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Asaph Hall
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Deimos
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1883
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quagga
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Artis Magistra zoo
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Amsterdam
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1898
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Spanish-American War
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Hawaiian flag
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Iolani Palace
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Republic of Hawai`i
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United States
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1908
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Model T
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Ford
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1914
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World War I
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Austria-Hungary
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1925
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Alpha Psi Omega
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West Virginia
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1943
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Philadelphia Experiment
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United States Navy
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USS
Eldridge
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1944
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Waffen SS
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Sant'Anna di Stazzema
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Alençon
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General Leclerc
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Nazis
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1952
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Night of the Murdered Poets
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1953
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Nuclear testing
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Soviet atomic bomb project
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Joe 4
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Soviet
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thermonuclear weapon
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1960
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Echo I
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communications satellite
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1964
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South Africa
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Olympic Games
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1964
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Charlie Wilson
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Great Train Robbers
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Winson Green Prison
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Birmingham
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England
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1969
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Battle of the Bogside
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Derry
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Royal Ulster Constabulary
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1977
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Space Shuttle Enterprise
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1978
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Japan
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People's Republic of China
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Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China
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1980
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Montevideo Treaty
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Latin American Integration Association
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1981
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IBM Personal Computer
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1982
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Mexico
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Latin America
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Third World
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1985
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Japan Airlines Flight 123
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Gunma Prefecture
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Japan
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1990
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Sue
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skeleton
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Tyrannosaurus rex
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Faith
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South Dakota
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1992
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North American Free Trade Agreement
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1994
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Major League Baseball
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strike
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1994 World Series
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2000
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Oscar class submarine
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K-141
Kursk
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Russian Navy
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exploded and sank
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Barents Sea
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military exercise
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2004
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New Jersey
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James McGreevey
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2005
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Sri Lanka
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Lakshman Kadirgamar
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LTTE
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F2
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Wright, Wyoming
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Civil unrest
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Maldives
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F1
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tornado
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Glen Cove, New York
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Long Island
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2007
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Bulk carrier
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M/V
New Flame
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oil tanker
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Gibraltar
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1503
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Christian III of Denmark and Norway
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1559
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1566
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Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain
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1633
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1604
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Tokugawa Iemitsu
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1651
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1629
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Alexei I of Russia
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1676
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1643
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Afonso VI of Portugal
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1683
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1644
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Heinrich Ignaz Biber
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1704
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1647
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Johann Heinrich Acker
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1719
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1686
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John Balguy
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1748
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1696
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Maurice Greene
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1755
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1720
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Konrad Ekhof
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1778
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1762
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George IV of the United Kingdom
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1830
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1774
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Robert Southey
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1843
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1856
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"Diamond Jim" Brady
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1917
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1859
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Katharine Lee Bates
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1929
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1866
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Jacinto Benavente
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Nobel Prize Laureate
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1954
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1867
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Edith Hamilton
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1963
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1872
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Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein
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1956
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1876
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
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1958
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1880
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Radclyffe Hall
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1943
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Christy Mathewson
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1925
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1881
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Cecil B. DeMille
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1959
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1883
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Pauline Frederick
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1938
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1885
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Jean Cabannes
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1959
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Marion Lorne
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1968
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1886
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Keith Murdoch
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1952
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1887
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Erwin Schrödinger
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Nobel Prize Laureate
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1961
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1889
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Zerna Sharp
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1981
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1892
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Alfred Lunt
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1977
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1902
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Mohammad Hatta
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1980
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1904
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Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia
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Emperor Nicholas II of Russia
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1918
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1906
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Harry Hopman
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1985
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Tedd Pierce
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1972
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1907
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Joe Besser
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1988
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1909
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Richard Bare
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1910
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Jane Wyatt
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2006
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Yusof bin Ishak
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1970
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1911
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Cantinflas
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1993
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1912
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Samuel Fuller
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1997
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1914
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Gerd Buchdahl
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2001
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Ruth Lowe
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I'll Never Smile Again
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1981
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1915
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Michael Kidd
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2007
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1918
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Guy Gibson
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Victoria Cross
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1944
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1919
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Vikram Sarabhai
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1971
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1924
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Derek Shackleton
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2007
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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
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1988
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1925
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Norris McWhirter
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Guinness Book of Records
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2004
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Ross McWhirter
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Guinness Book of Records
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1975
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George Wetherill
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2006
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1926
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John Derek
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1998
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Joe Jones
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2005
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Wallace Markfield
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2002
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1927
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Porter Wagoner
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2007
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1928
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Charles Blackman
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Bob Buhl
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2001
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Dan Curtis
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1929
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Buck Owens
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2006
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1930
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George Soros
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Jacques Tits
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1931
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William Goldman
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1932
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Charlie O'Donnell
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Somdej Phra Nangchao Sirikit Phra Boromarajininat
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1933
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Parnelli Jones
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1935
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John Cazale
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1978
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1937
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Walter Dean Myers
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1938
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Jean-Paul L'Allier
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1939
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George Hamilton
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Roy Romanow
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Michael D. Antonovich
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1941
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Réjean Ducharme
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1943
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Deborah Walley
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2001
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1944
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Peter Hofmann
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1947
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Ron Mael
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Sparks
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Sam Rosen
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1949
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Panagiotis Chinofotis
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Mark Knopfler
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OBE
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Dire Straits
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1950
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Jim Beaver
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1951
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Willie Horton
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1952
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Chen Kaige
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1954
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Sam J. Jones
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Pat Metheny
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1955
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Ann M. Martin
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Terry Taylor
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1956
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Bruce Greenwood
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1959
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Amanda Redman
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1960
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Laurent Fignon
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1961
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Roy Hay
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Culture Club
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Lawrence Hayward
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Felt
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Denim
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Go Kart Mozart
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1962
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Miss Cleo
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1963
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Sir Mix A Lot
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1965
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Peter Krause
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1966
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Les Ferdinand
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1967
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Regilio Tuur
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Andrey Plotnikov
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Andy Hui
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1968
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Andras Jones
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1969
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Aga Muhlach
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1970
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Anthony Swofford
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Jim Schlossnagle
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Charles Mesure
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1971
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Michael Ian Black
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Rebecca Gayheart
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Pete Sampras
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1972
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Mark Kinsella
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Takanohana
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yokozuna
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1973
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Joseba Beloki
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Jonathan Coachman
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Todd Marchant
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Richard Reid (shoe bomber)
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Yvette Nicole Brown
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Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr
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Ayatollah
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Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
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Grey DeLisle
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1974
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Matt Clement
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1975
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Casey Affleck
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David Filmore
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1976
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Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström
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Antoine Walker
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Wednesday 13
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Wednesday 13
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Murderdolls
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Brad Lukowich
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Richard McCourt
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Henry Tuilagi
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1977
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Plaxico Burress
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Jesper Grønkjær
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Park Yong-ha
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1978
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Hayley Wickenheiser
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Chris Chambers
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1979
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D.J. Houlton
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Cindy Klassen
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1980
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Maggie Lawson
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Dominique Swain
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Matt Thiessen
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Relient K
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Jade Villalon
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1981
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Tony Capaldi
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Djibril Cissé
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1982
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Alexandros Tzorvas
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1983
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Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
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30 BC
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Cleopatra
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69 BC
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875
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Louis II Holy Roman Emperor
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825
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1424
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Yongle
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Emperor of China
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1460
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1484
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George of Trebizond
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1395
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Pope Sixtus IV
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1414
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1512
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Alessandro Achillini
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1463
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1577
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Thomas Smith
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1513
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1588
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Alfonso Ferrabosco (I)
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1543
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1612
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Giovanni Gabrieli
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1633
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Jacopo Peri
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1561
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1638
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Johannes Althusius
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1557
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1648
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Ibrahim I
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Ottoman Sultan
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1615
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1674
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Philippe de Champaigne
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1602
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1689
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Pope Innocent XI
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1611
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1778
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Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
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1714
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1809
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Mikhail Kamensky
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1738
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1810
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Etienne Louis Geoffroy
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1725
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1822
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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
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1769
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1827
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William Blake
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1757
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1848
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George Stephenson
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1781
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1861
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Eliphalet Remington
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1793
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1864
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Sakuma Shōzan
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1811
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1865
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William Jackson Hooker
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1785
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1891
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James Russell Lowell
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1819
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1896
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Thomas Chamberlain
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Battle of Gettysburg
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1900
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Wilhelm Steinitz
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1836
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1901
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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
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1832
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1914
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John Philip Holland
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1840
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1918
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Anna Held
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1872
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1922
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Arthur Griffith
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President of Ireland
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1871
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1928
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Leoš Janáček
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1854
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1934
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Hendrik Petrus Berlage
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1856
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1935
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Friedrich Schottky
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1851
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1943
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Bobby Peel
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1857
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1944
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Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
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John F. Kennedy
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1915
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1948
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Harry Brearley
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1871
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1952
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David Bergelson
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1884
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1955
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Thomas Mann
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Nobel laureate
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1875
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James B. Sumner
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Nobel laureate
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1887
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1959
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Mike O'Neill
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1877
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1964
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Ian Fleming
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James Bond
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1908
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1968
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Esther Forbes
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1891
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1973
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Walter Rudolf Hess
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Nobel laureate
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1881
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Karl Ziegler
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Nobel Prize Laureate
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1898
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1979
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Ernst Boris Chain
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Nobel laureate
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1906
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1982
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Henry Fonda
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1905
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Salvador Sanchez
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1959
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Varlam Shalamov
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1907
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1985
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Kyu Sakamoto
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1941
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Manfred Winkelhock
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1951
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1988
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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1960
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1989
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William Shockley
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Nobel laureate
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1910
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Samuel Okwaraji
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1964
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1990
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B. Kliban
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1935
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Dorothy Mackaill
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1903
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1992
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John Cage
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1912
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1996
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Robert Gravel
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1945
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1996
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Mark Gruenwald
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1953
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1997
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Luther Allison
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1939
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1999
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Jean Drapeau
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1916
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2000
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Loretta Young
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1913
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2002
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Enos Slaughter
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1916
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2004
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Godfrey Hounsfield
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Nobel laureate
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1919
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Peter Woodthorpe
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1931
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2005
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John Loder
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CRASS
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1946
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2007
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Merv Griffin
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1925
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Mike Wieringo
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1963
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United Nations
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International Youth Day
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1999
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Glorious Twelfth
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Yorkshire Dales
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Thailand
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Queen's
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Mother's Day
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RC Saints
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Saint Euplus
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Herculanus of Brescia
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. It uses material from the
Wikipedia article "August 12"
.
