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Jack Ralph Cole was an American cartoonist best known for creating the comedic superhero Plastic Man, and his cartoons for Playboy magazine.....
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Jack Delano was an American photographer for the Farm Security Administration and a composer noted for his use of Puerto Rican folk material.....
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Francois Henri Jack LaLanne was an American fitness, exercise, and nutritional expert and motivational speaker who is sometimes called the godfather of fitness and the first fitness superhero. He described himself as being a sugarholic and a junk food junkie until he was 15. He also had behavioral problems, but turned his life around after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition. During his career, he came to believe that the countrys overall health depended on the he....
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Murlidhar Devidas Amte, popularly known as Baba Amte was an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of poor people suffering from leprosy.....
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Gnther Heydemann was a German Uboat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Gnther Specht was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.....
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Horace Leonard H. L. Gold was a science fiction writer and editor. Born in Canada, Gold moved to the United States at the age of two. He was most noted for bringing an innovative and fresh approach to science fiction while he was the editor of Galaxy Science Fiction, and also wrote briefly for DC Comics.....
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Eberhard von Boremski was a Luftwaffe flying ace of World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Von Boremski was credited with 104 aerial victoriesthat is, 104 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraftclaimed in roughly 630 combat missions. He was killed in an accident in Hamburg on 16 December 1963.....
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Cecil Farris Bryant was the 34th Governor of Florida. He also served on the United States National Security Council and in the Office of Emergency Planning during the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson.....
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Edward Arnold Eddie Chapman was an English criminal and wartime spy. During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and subsequently became a British double agent. His British Secret Service handlers codenamed him Zigzag in acknowledgement of his rather erratic personal history. He had a number of criminal aliases known by the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson. His German codename was Fritz or, later, after endearing hi....
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Caesar Barrand Hull, DFC was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War, noted especially for his part in the fighting for Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and for being one of The Fewthe Allied pilots of the Battle of Britain, in which he was shot down and killed. From a farming family, Hulls early years were spent in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa and Swaziland. He boxed for South Africa at the 1934 Empire Games. After being turned down by the South African Air Fo....
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Edmund Sixtus Ed Muskie was an American statesman, author, academic, and reformer who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter. As head of the U.S. State Department, Muskie was influential in establishing diplomatic ties with foreign entities, developed numerous measures in U.S. foreign policy, and assisted Carter in the diplomatic resolution of the Iran hostage crisis, widely considered a pivotal episode in the history of IranUnited States relations. Aft....
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Fayard Antonio Nicholas was an American choreographer, dancer and actor. He and his younger brother Harold Nicholas made up the Nicholas Brothers tapdance duo, who starred in the MGM musicals An AllColored Vaudeville Show , Stormy Weather , The Pirate , The Five Heartbeats and Hard Four . The Nicholas brothers also starred in the 20th CenturyFox musicals Down Argentine Way , Sun Valley Serenade , and Orchestra Wives .....
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Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Francis Woodard , was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Boks work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta Publish....
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HansGotthard Pestke was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. HansGotthard Pestke was captured by British troops in May 1945 and was released in 1947. In 1956 he joined the Bundeswehr and served until 1972.....
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HansKarl Stepp was a German World War II Luftwaffe Stuka ace. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Hans Robert Fritz Hahn who was nicknamed Assi was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 108 enemy aircraft shot down in 560 combat missions. He claimed 66 victories over the Western Front, of which 53 were Supermarine Spitfires. Of the 42 victories he recorded over the Eastern Front, at least seven were Il2 Sturmovik groundattack aircraft.....
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Hans Barthle was a highly decorated Oberleutnant der Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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