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Carl Hilding Severinsen is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.....
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Having studied in different schools of classical fine arts , his work was gradually stripped of academicism, as evidenced already in his first notable works the Recumbent Christ , the Cathedral of Girona, and Saint Benedict the abbey of Montserrat. The mural painting or on different media, initially and primarily religious subjects, but also the drawing , nus and bestiari , ceramics, concrete, stained glass, the use of polyurethane, stone, and alabrastre, iron, steel, wood and various other ma....
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Maija Isola was a leading Finnish designer of printed textiles. Her bold colourful designs made Marimekko famous in the 1960s. She also had a career as a visual artist.....
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Sven Olof Joachim Palme 30 January 1927 28 February 1986 was a Swedish Social Democratic politician, statesman and prime minister. A longtime protg of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986, and was a twoterm Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his death. Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemon....
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Eva Bartok , was an actress born in Budapest, Hungary as va Mrta Szke Ivanovics. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate, Operation Amsterdam, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms.....
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Bernard Francis Bernie Fisher was a United States Air Force officer and a recipient of the U.S. militarys highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. He was the first Air Force member to receive the medal in the Vietnam War.....
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Nayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with Indias elite responding to the crises engendered by political change she was one of the first female Indian writers in English to receive wide recognition. She is a member of the NehruGandhi family, the second of the three daughters born to Jawaharlal Nehrus sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.....
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Lauro Fred Cavazos Jr. is a U.S. educator and politician. He served as Secretary of Education, and was the first Hispanic to serve in the United States Cabinet.....
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James David Watkins was a United States Navy admiral and former Chief of Naval Operations who served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the George H. W. Bush administration, also chairing U.S. government commissions on HIVAIDS and ocean policy. Watkins also served on the boards of various companies and other nongovernmental organizations and as the cochair of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative.....
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Hugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005.....
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Manfred Eigen is a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.....
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Patrick Swift was an Irish painter who worked in Dublin, London and Algarve in southern Portugal.....
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Marvin Neil Simon is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.....
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Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink was an American politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. Mink was a third generation Japanese American and member of the Democratic Party. She also was the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.....
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Patrick Layton Paulsen known as Pat Paulsen was an American comedian and satirist notable for his roles on several of the Smothers Brothers TV shows, and for his campaigns for President of the United States in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1988, 1992, and 1996, which had primarily comedic rather than political objectives, although his campaigns generated some protest votes for him.....
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James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, KT, PC, QC is a British advocate. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Lord Advocate, and Lord Chancellor . He is an active member of the House of Lords.....
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Bhumibol Adulyadej see full title below born 5 December 1927 is the King of Thailand. He is also known as Rama IX, as he is the ninth monarch of the Chakri Dynasty. Having reigned since 9 June 1946, he is the worlds longestserving current head of state and the longestreigning monarch in Thai history, serving for 7009220797360000000 69160years, 353160days.....
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Nguyn Khnh was a South Vietnamese military officer and Army of the Republic of Vietnam general who served in various capacities as head of state and prime minister of South Vietnam while at the head of a military junta from January 1964 until February 1965. He was involved in or against many coup attempts, failed and successful, from 1960 until his defeat and exile from South Vietnam in 1965. Khnh lived out his later years with his family, in exile in the United States, and died of pneumonia an....
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James Thomas Lynn was an American cabinet officer and government official. He served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1973 until 1975 and as the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1975 until 1977.....
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