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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. sometimes referred to as Henry Cabot Lodge II, was a Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See . He was the Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1960 Presidential election.....
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Gertrud ScholtzKlink later known as Maria Stuckebrock was a fervent Nazi Party member and leader of the National Socialist Womens League in Nazi Germany.....
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Barbara McClintock was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader in the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. She developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes....
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Hermann Seitz 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.....
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Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary, who chose between his religious beliefs and competing in an Olympic race.....
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Giovanni Colombo was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1963 to 1979, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.....
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Barton MacLane was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. Although he appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s, he was known for his role as Gen. Martin Peterson on the 1960s NBC television comedy series I Dream of Jeannie, with Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman.....
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Irene Rice Pereira was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America. She is known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and lyrical abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. Pereiras paintings and writings were influenced significantly by the complex intellectual currents of the 20th century.....
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Nzm Hikmet Ran , commonly known as Nzm Hikmet was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the lyrical flow of his statements. Described as a romantic communist and romantic revolutionary, he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages.....
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Ern Goldfinger was a Hungarianborn architect and designer of furniture. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1930s, and became a key member of the Modernist architectural movement. He is most prominently remembered for designing residential tower blocks, some of which are now listed buildings.....
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Ida Siekmann was the first person to die at the Berlin Wall, only 9 days after the beginning of its construction.....
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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.....
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Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing GCB KBE DSO DL , called in Chinese, was a field marshal of the British Army. His most important posts were as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong , General Officer Commanding British Troops in Egypt , General Officer Commanding Eastern Command , CommanderinChief Far East Land Forces , and Chief of the Imperial General Staff . He saw active service in the Second World War, taking a prominent role in Operation Ironclad and the Arakan offensive of the....
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Louis Feinberg , known professionally as Larry Fine, was an American comedian, actor, violinist, and boxer, who is best known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.....
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Gordon Philip Saville was a United States Air Force major general who was the top authority on US air defense from 1940 to 1951. Blunt and direct in manner, Saville had been an outspoken proponent of tactical aviation in the 1930s against a brotherhood of airmen who promoted strategic bombing.....
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Albert Namatjira , born Elea Namatjira, was a Western Arrerntespeaking Aboriginal artist from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia. As a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, he was the most famous Indigenous Australian of his generation. Born and raised at the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission outside Alice Springs, Namatjira showed interest in art from an early age, but it was not until 1934 , under the tutelage of Rex Battarbee, that he began to paint seriously. Namatjiras rich....
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Howard Walter Gilmore was a submarine commander in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic selfsacrifice during World War II.....
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Howard William Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played centre for three National Hockey League teams the Montreal Canadiens , the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers. Before joining the NHL, Morenz excelled in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, where his team played for the Memorial Cup, the championship for junior ice hockey in Canada. In the NHL, he was one of the most dominant players in the league and set several league scoring records. A strong skater....
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Eugene Paul E. P. Wigner , was a Hungarian American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles.....
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