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Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco was a Brazilian politician who served as acting President of Brazil from 2 October 1992 and as President from 29 December 1992 to 1 January 1995. He was Vice President of Brazil from 1990 until the resignation of President Fernando Collor de Mello. During his long political career Franco also served as Senator, Mayor, Ambassador and Governor. At the time of his death he was a Senator for Minas Gerais, having won the seat in the 2010 election.....
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James Graham J. G. Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic novels such as The Wind from Nowhere and The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, Ballard produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in The Atrocity Exhibition , which drew comparisons with the work of postmodernist writers such as William S. Burroughs. In the mid 1970s, he publish....
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Daniel Alexandrov was an American Russian Orthodox bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.....
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George Gordon Battle Liddy , better known as G. Gordon Liddy, is a retired American lawyer who is best known as the chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit that existed from JulySeptember 1971, during Richard Nixons presidency. He was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal.....
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Francis Joseph Gossman was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as a bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina from 1975 to 2006.....
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Hafez alAssad was a Syrian statesman, politician and general who was President of Syria from 1971 to 2000, Prime Minister from 1970 to 1971, Regional Secretary of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Baath Party and Secretary General of the National Command of the Baath Party from 1971 to 2000. He participated in the 1963 Syrian coup dtat which brought the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Baath Party to power, and was appointed Commander of the Sy....
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Gaafar Muhammad anNimeiry was the President of Sudan from 1969 to 1985.....
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Edgar Dean Ed Mitchell was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.....
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Garner Ted Armstrong was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught observance of seventhday Sabbath, and annual Sabbath days based on Leviticus 23.....
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 11 May 1930 6 August 2002 was a Dutch computer scientist. A theoretical physicist by training, he worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum from 1952 to 1962. He was a professor of mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology and a research fellow at the Burroughs Corporation . He held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 1999, and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1999.....
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Edward Higgins Ed White II , , was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to walk in space. White died along with his fellow astronauts Virgil Gus Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee during prelaunch testing for the first manned Apollo mission at Cape Canaveral. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his flight in Gemini 4 and then awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor posthumousl....
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Virginia Cathryn Gena Rowlands is an American film, stage and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades. A fourtime Emmy and twotime Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actordirector husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria , which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night . In Nov....
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Harold Pinter CH CBE was a Nobel Prizewinning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His bestknown plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others works include The Servant , The GoBetween , The French Lieutenants Woman , The Trial , and Sleuth . He also directed or acted in radio, s....
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Colonel David Haskell Hackworth , also known as Hack, was an American Korean War and Vietnam War veteran who received many combat decorations for heroism in both wars. Hackworth is known for his role in the creation and command of Tiger Force, a military unit formed during the Vietnam War to apply guerrilla warfare tactics to the fight against Vietcong guerrilla fighters.....
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David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies Brown University ....
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Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not his early interests he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters until around the age of 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960s.....
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George Mathew Fernandes is a former Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He was a key member of the Janata Dal, and is the founder of the Samata Party. He has held several ministerial portfolios including communications, industry, railways, and defence, and was the only Christian minister in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayees cabinet.....
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George Finch was a British architect. He was a committed socialist who believed architecture had the power to transform the lives of postwar Londoners. Finchs ideals drove his passion for designing social housing, civic and environmental buildings for everyday people built to the highest building standards.....
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Professor Dr. Christian SchwarzSchilling , is a German politician, entrepreneur, philanthropist and media and telecommunications innovator. He is the son of the composer Reinhard SchwarzSchilling and is married to the author MarieLuise SchwarzSchilling with whom he has two children. He is a Catholic. During a trip to Poland in 2003, SchwarzSchilling discovered that his mother, Polish pianist Dusza von Hakrid was in fact Jewish. In 1938 a German civil servant altered his mothers Jewish maiden nam....
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David Piper is a British former Formula One and sports car racing driver from England. He participated in 3 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 July 1959. He scored no championship points.....
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