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Jack Banham Coggins was an artist, author, and illustrator. He is known in the United States for his oil paintings, which focused predominantly on marine subjects. He is also known for his books on space travel, which were both authored and illustrated by Coggins. Besides his own works, Coggins also provided illustrations for advertisements and magazine covers and articles.....
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Baba Vanga , born Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova , known after her marriage as Vangelia Gushterova , was a blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant, and herbalist, who spent most of her life in the Rupite area in the Kozhuh mountains Bulgaria. Millions of people around the world were convinced that she possessed paranormal abilities.....
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Mildred Ella Babe Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who achieved a great deal of success in golf, basketball and track and field.....
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Marie Osborne Yeats was the first major child star of American silent films. She was usually billed simply as Baby Marie.....
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George Homer Durham was an American academic administrator and was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1977 until his death.....
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Eddie August Henry Schneider was an American aviator who set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twentyone in 1930. His plane was a Cessna Model AW with a WarnerScarab engine, one of only 48 built, that he called The Kangaroo. He set the easttowest, then the westtoeast, and the combined round trip record. He was the youngest certificated pilot in the United States, and the youngest certified airplane mechanic. He was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee....
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Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who most often used the pen name C. L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in either genre . Moores work paved the way for many other female speculative fiction writers. She and her first husband Henry Kuttner were prolific coauthors under their own names and three pseudonyms.....
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David Daniel Kaminsky , better known by his screen name Danny Kaye, was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, and musician. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapidfire novelty songs.....
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz MBE, NI, Lenin Peace Prize was an influential leftwing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most highly regarded poets of the Urdu language, having been nominated four times for the Nobel Prize for literature. Faiz also wrote poetry in the Punjabi language. A notable member of the Progressive Writers Movement , Faiz was an avowed Marxist, for which he received the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962.....
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Gail Patrick was an American film actress and television producer. Often cast as the bad girl or the other woman, she appeared in more than 60 feature films between 1932 and 1948, notably My Man Godfrey , Stage Door and My Favorite Wife . After retiring from acting she became, as Gail Patrick Jackson, president of Paisano Productions and executive producer of the Perry Mason television series . She was one of the first women producers, and the only female executive producer in prime time durin....
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Daphne Pearson GC was an English Womens Auxiliary Air Force NCO and later officer during World War II and one of only thirteen women recipients of the George Cross to date, the highest medal for gallantry not in the face of an enemy that can be awarded to a citizen of the United Kingdom.....
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Leonel Edmundo Rivero was an Argentine tango singer, composer, and impresario.....
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Gardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote more than 4,000 comics stories.....
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Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and the 28th president of Chile from 1964 to 1970. His eldest son, Eduardo Frei RuizTagle, also became president of Chile .....
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HansUlrich Freiherr von Luck und Witten , usually shortened to Hans von Luck, was a Colonel in the German Armored Forces during World War II. Luck served with the 7th Panzer Division and 21st Panzer Division, seeing action in Poland, France, North Africa, Italy, Normandy, and the Soviet Union. In several of the World War II campaigns, he served under Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel. Luck is author of the book Panzer Commander.....
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Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain was a German physicist, and designer of the first operational jet engine. His first design ran in March 1937, and it was one of his engines that powered the worlds first flyable alljet aircraft, the prototype of the Heinkel He 178 in late August 1939. In spite of these early successes, other German designs quickly eclipsed von Ohains, and none of his engine designs entered widespread production or operational use.....
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A Harold Montgomery, Sr. , was an agricultural businessman and a Louisiana state senator, who is remembered as an outspoken conservative within his states dominant Democratic Party. He represented District 36 Bossier and Webster parishes and, later, part of Bienville Parishin three nonconsecutive terms in the Senate, 19601968 and 19721976.....
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Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968the longest tenure in the positions historyand later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had long been a top aide to president Charles de Gaulle. As president, he was a moderate conservative who repaired Frances relationship with the United States, and maintained positive relations with the newlyindependent former colonies in Africa.....
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George Albert Hammes was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin from 1960 to 1985.....
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George Biskup was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa and Archbishop of Indianapolis .....
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