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Alton Glenn Miller was an American big band musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the bestselling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known big bands. Millers recordings include In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, Pennsylvania 65000, Chattanooga Choo Choo, A String of Pearls, At Last, Kalamazoo, American Patrol, Tuxedo Junction, Elmers Tune, and Little Brown Jug. While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, ....
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Ernst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th centurys leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.....
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Francisco Maduro Dias Coelho was a Portuguese poet, painter, sculptor, illustrator, teacher, set designer and an overall theatre man. He was one of the founders of the Instituto Histrico da Ilha Terceira , having an important role in the cultural scene of the first half of the Azorean twentieth century.....
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Lal Bahadur Shastri , 2 October 1904160 11 January 1966 was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party.....
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MacKinlay Kantor , born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel, Andersonville. He also wrote Gettysburg, set during the Civil War.....
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Erwin Nathaniel Griswold was an appellate attorney who argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Griswold served as Solicitor General of the United States under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. He also served as Dean of Harvard Law School for 21 years. Several times he was considered for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. During a career that spanned more than six decades, he served as member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as President of the American B....
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Nancy FreemanMitford CBE , known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the interwar years, she is best remembered for her novels about upperclass life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.....
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Nan Phelps , was an American folk artist from London, Kentucky. Phelps work has often been compared to the more famous Grandma Moses in both style and subject matter.....
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Alberta Vaughn was an American actress in silent motion pictures and early Western sound films. She appeared in some 130 motion pictures.....
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Estelle Bernadotte , Countess of Wisborg , also known as Estelle Ekstrand , was an AmericanSwedish countess who was a leading figure in the International Red Cross and Girl Scout movement. She married Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish member of a United Nations mediating team. He was assassinated by the extremist zionist Stern gang while on duty in Israel in September 1948.....
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Gordon Miller Buehrig was a noted automobile designer. Born in Mason City, Illinois, he had early design experience with Packard, General Motors and Stutz. In 1929, he was responsible for designing the bodies of the Stutz Black Hawks entered at Le Mans. At age 25 he became chief body designer for Duesenberg, where he designed the Model J. He joined the Auburn Automobile Company of Auburn, Indiana in 1934, producing the famous 1935 851 Boattail Speedster, based on the work of Alan Leamy . He ....
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Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge was an American physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research. His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einsteins massenergy equivalence concept. He was the Director of the Manhattan Projects Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge described the Trinity explosion as a foul and awesome display. He remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, Now we....
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Alden John Bell was a 20thcentury bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento in the state of California from 19621979. Bell survived being stabbed several times in his own office by a knifewielding assailant.....
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Malati Devi Choudhury was an Indian civil rights and freedom activist and Gandhian. She born in 1904 in an upper middle class Brahmo family. She was the daughter of Barrister Kumud Nath Sen, whom she had lost when she was only two and a half years old, and Snehalata Sen, who brought her up.....
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Henry Graham Greene OM CH , better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers . He was shortlisted, in 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings, which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambival....
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Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman, OBE , referred to as Oppy by Australian and French crowds, was an Australian cyclist and politician, whose endurance cycling feats in the 1920s and 1930s earned him international acclaim.....
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Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan, SJ, CC was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian, regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.....
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Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson Fogelson, CBE , was an AngloAmerican actress who was very popular during the Second World War, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of Americas topten box office draws from 1942 to 1946. As one of the major stars at MetroGoldwynMayer during the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, including a record five consecutive nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver .....
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Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. In the 1940s he helped extend systems theory and cybernetics to the social and behavioral sciences. He spent the last decade of his life developing a metascience of epistemology to bring together the various early forms of systems theory developing in different fields of science. His writings include Steps to an Ecolog....
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James Oliver Eastland was an American politician from Mississippi who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1941 and again from 1943 until his resignation December 27, 1978. From 1947 to 1978, he served alongside John C. Stennis, also a Democrat. At the time, Eastland and Stennis were the longestserving Senate duo in American history, though their record was subsequently surpassed by Strom Thurmond and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, who served together for thirtysix years. Eas....
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