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John Bell Hood
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Confederate Army of Tennessee
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1893
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Antonín Dvořák
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Carnegie Hall
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1907
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Great White Fleet
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1910
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Coandă-1910
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Henri Coandă
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1914
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World War I
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Hartlepool
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Scarborough
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1920
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Haiyuan earthquake
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Gansu
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China
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1922
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President of Poland
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Gabriel Narutowicz
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Eligiusz Niewiadomski
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Warsaw
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1925
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Alpha Phi Omega
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Lafayette College
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1937
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Theodore Cole
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Ralph Roe
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American
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Alcatraz Island
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San Francisco Bay
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1938
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Adolf Hitler
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Cross of Honor of the German Mother
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1941
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World War II
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Miri
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Sarawak
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1942
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Holocaust
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Porajmos
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Heinrich Himmler
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Roma
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Auschwitz
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1944
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World War II
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Battle of the Bulge
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General
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Field Marshall
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Gerd von Rundstedt
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German
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Ardennes
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1946
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Léon Blum
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Prime Minister of France
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1947
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William Shockley
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John Bardeen
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Walter Brattain
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point-contact transistor
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1949
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Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget
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SAAB
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1950
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President
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Harry S. Truman
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communist
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North Korea
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Korean War
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1957
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Feroz Khan Noon
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Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
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Prime Minister of Pakistan
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1960
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1960 New York air disaster
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Idlewild Airport
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United Airlines
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Douglas DC-8
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TWA
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Lockheed Super Constellation
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snowstorm
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Staten Island
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1965
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Vietnam War
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William Westmoreland
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Secretary of Defense
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Robert McNamara
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1966
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1971
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Bangladesh War of Independence
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Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
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Pakistan army
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Bahrain
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British Protectorate
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1972
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Vietnam War
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Henry Kissinger
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North Vietnam
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Paris
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1978
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Cleveland, Ohio
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1979
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Libya
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OPEC
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United States
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1982
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Federal Reserve
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1985
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Mafia
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New York City
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Paul Castellano
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Thomas Bilotti
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John Gotti
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Gambino family
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1986
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Kazakhstan
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Communist party
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Zheltoksan
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Gorbachev
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1989
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Timişoara
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Hungarian
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László Tőkés
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1989
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terrorist
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Robert Smith Vance
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Birmingham, Alabama
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1991
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United Nations General Assembly
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UN General Assembly Resolution 4686
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UN General Assembly Resolution 3379
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Madrid Peace Conference of 1991
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Independence
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Kazakhstan
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1998
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Iraq disarmament crisis
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Operation Desert Fox
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United States
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United Kingdom
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Iraq
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1485
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Catherine of Aragon
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1536
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1584
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John Selden
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1654
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1614
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Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg
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1674
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1714
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George Whitefield
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1770
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1716
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Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais
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1798
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1717
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Elizabeth Carter
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1806
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1742
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Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt
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1819
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1770
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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1827
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1775
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Jane Austen
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1817
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François-Adrien Boïeldieu
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1834
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1776
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Johann Wilhelm Ritter
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1810
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1787
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Mary Russell Mitford
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1855
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1790
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Léopold I of Belgium
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1865
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1804
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Viktor Bunyakovsky
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1889
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1834
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Léon Walras
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1910
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1861
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Antonio de La Gandara
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1917
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1863
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George Santayana
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1952
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1865
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Olavo Bilac
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1918
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1866
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N.S.
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Wassily Kandinsky
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1944
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1867
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Amy Carmichael
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India
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1951
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1869
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Hristo Tatarchev
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1952
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1872
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Anton Ivanovich Denikin
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1947
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1882
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Jack Hobbs
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1963
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Zoltán Kodály
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1967
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Walther Meissner
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1974
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1883
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Max Linder
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silent film
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1925
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1888
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Alexander I of Yugoslavia
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1934
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Alphonse Juin
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marshall of France
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1967
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1899
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Noel Coward
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1973
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1900
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V. S. Pritchett
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1997
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1901
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Margaret Mead
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1978
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1902
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Rafael Alberti
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1999
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1905
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Piet Hein
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1996
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1906
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Barbara Kent
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1915
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Turk Murphy
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1987
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1917
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Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
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Arthur C. Clarke
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2008
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1918
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Pierre Delanoë
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2006
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1922
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Cy Leslie
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2008
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1926
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James McCracken
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1988
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1927
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Randall Garrett
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1987
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1928
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Philip K. Dick
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1982
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1929
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Nicholas Courtney
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1932
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Rodion Shchedrin
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1934
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Elgin Gay Baylor
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1936
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Morris Dees
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Southern Poverty Law Center
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1937
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Joyce Bulifant
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1938
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Frank Deford
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Liv Ullmann
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1941
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Lesley Stahl
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1942
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Donald Carcieri
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Rhode Island
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1943
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Steven Bochco
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Tony Hicks
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The Hollies
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1945
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Patti Deutsch
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Match Game
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Bobby George
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Yukio Hattori
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Iron Chef
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1946
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Benny Andersson
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ABBA
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Trevor Pinnock
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1947
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Ben Cross
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Vincent Matthews
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1948
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Christopher Biggins
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1949
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Billy Gibbons
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ZZ Top
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1950
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Claudia Cohen
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2007
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Roy Schuiten
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2006
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1951
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Robben Ford
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1952
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Joel Garner
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West Indies
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Francesco Graziani
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1955
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Xander Berkeley
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Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
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1960
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Pat Van Den Hauwe
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1961
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Bill Hicks
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1994
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Jon Tenney
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1962
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Maruschka Detmers
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William "The Refrigerator" Perry
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1963
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Benjamin Bratt
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Jeff Carson
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James Mangold
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1964
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Heike Drechsler
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Georgie Parker
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Billy Ripken
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1965
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Chris Jones
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Melanie Sloan
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Nancy Valen
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1966
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Clifford Robinson
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Dennis Wise
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1967
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Donovan Bailey
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Miranda Otto
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1971
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Michael McCary
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Boyz II Men
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Paul van Dyk
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1972
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Angela Bloomfield
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Charles Gipson
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Željko Kalac
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1973
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Themba Mnguni
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Scott Storch
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1974
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Frida Hallgren
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1975
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Valentin Bădoi
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Nawo Kawakita
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Maximum the Hormone
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Benjamin Kowalewicz
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Billy Talent
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Jonathan Scarfe
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1977
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Éric Bélanger
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Sylvain Distin
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1978
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Gunter Van Handenhoven
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Kaine
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Ying Yang Twins
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1979
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Mihai Trăistariu
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Jessie Ward
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Trevor Immelman
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1981
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Flo Rida
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Anna Sedokova
|
Took Leng How
|
2006
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Gareth Williams
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1982
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Garnon Davies
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Antrel Rolle
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1983
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Kelenna Azubuike
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Danielle Lloyd
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1985
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Keita Tachibana
|
w-inds.
|
1987
|
Hallee Hirsh
|
1988
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Anna Popplewell
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705
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Empress Wu of Zhou
|
625
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714
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Pippin of Herstal
|
867
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Eberhard of Friuli
|
999
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Adelaide of Italy
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931
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1325
|
Charles of Valois
|
Philip III of France
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1270
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1378
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Otto III of Montferrat
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1379
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John Fitzalan
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1470
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John II, Duke of Lorraine
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1425
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1515
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Afonso de Albuquerque
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1453
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1598
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Yi Sun-sin
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1545
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1669
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Nathaniel Fiennes
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1608
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1687
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William Petty
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1623
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1751
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Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau
|
1700
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1765
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Peter Frederick Haldimand
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1774
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François Quesnay
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1694
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1783
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Johann A. Hasse
|
1699
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William James
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1720
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1809
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Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy
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1755
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1859
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Wilhelm Grimm
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1786
|
1897
|
Alphonse Daudet
|
1840
|
1898
|
Pavel Tretyakov
|
1832
|
1914
|
Ivan Zajc
|
1832
|
1921
|
Camille Saint-Saëns
|
1835
|
1922
|
Gabriel Narutowicz
|
President of Poland
|
1865
|
1928
|
Elinor Wylie
|
1885
|
1935
|
Thelma Todd
|
1905
|
1940
|
Billy Hamilton
|
1866
|
1944
|
Don Meyer
|
1945
|
Giovanni Agnelli
|
1866
|
Fumimaro Konoye
|
Prime Minister of Japan
|
1891
|
1949
|
Sidney Olcott
|
1873
|
1956
|
Nina Hamnett
|
1890
|
1965
|
W. Somerset Maugham
|
1874
|
1976
|
Réal Caouette
|
Social Credit Party of Canada
|
1917
|
1977
|
Risto Jarva
|
1934
|
1980
|
Colonel Sanders
|
1890
|
Hellmuth Walter
|
1900
|
1982
|
Colin Chapman
|
Lotus Cars
|
1928
|
1984
|
Debs Garms
|
1907
|
1985
|
Thomas Bilotti
|
1940
|
Paul Castellano
|
1915
|
1988
|
Sylvester
|
1948
|
1989
|
Oscar Alfredo Gálvez
|
1913
|
Silvana Mangano
|
1930
|
Aileen Pringle
|
1895
|
Lee Van Cleef
|
1925
|
1990
|
Douglas Campbell
|
1896
|
1993
|
Moses Gunn
|
1929
|
Tanaka Kakuei
|
Prime Minister of Japan
|
1918
|
Charizma
|
1973
|
1995
|
Johnny Moss
|
1907
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Mariele Ventre
|
1939
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1996
|
Quentin Bell
|
1910
|
1997
|
Nicolette Larson
|
1952
|
1998
|
William Gaddis
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1922
|
2001
|
Stuart Adamson
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The Skids
|
Big Country
|
1958
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Stefan Heym
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1913
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2003
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Robert Stanfield
|
1914
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Gary Stewart
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1945
|
2004
|
Ted Abernathy
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1933
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2005
|
Kenneth Bulmer
|
1921
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Ed Hansen
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1937
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John Spencer
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1946
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2006
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Don Jardine
|
1940
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Taliep Petersen
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1950
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Pnina Salzman
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1922
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2007
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Dan Fogelberg
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1951
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Bahrain
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National Day
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Bangladesh
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Victory Day
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India
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Vijay Diwas (Victory Day)
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Kazakhstan
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Independence Day
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South Africa
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Day of Reconciliation
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Afrikaners (South Africa)
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Day of the Vow
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Mexico
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Las Posadas
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Philippines
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Misa de Gallo
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St. Adelaide
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February 30
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. It uses material from the
Wikipedia article "December 16"
.
