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Aleksander Adolfovich Burba 6 August 1918 5 October 1984 was a Soviet organizer of industry and education, a scholar in the field of chemical and metallurgical technologies, Ph.D. , Professor , Director of the Mednogorsk CopperSulfur Plant , the first Rector of the Orenburg Polytechnic Institute , now the Orenburg State University. Honorary Citizen of Mednogorsk, Orenburg Oblast .....
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Hugh Verity, DSO amp Bar, DFC, Legion of Honour , Croix de Guerre 19391945 France, was an English Royal Air Force fighter pilot and later a special duties squadron pilot working with Special Operations Executive landing in occupied France to insert and extract agents. He was decorated for gallantry five times.....
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Donald Canham was a track and field athlete and coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the athletic director at the University of Michigan from 1968 to 1988. There, he became nationally renowned for his ability to market and sell products bearing the name or logo of the school. In December 1968, he hired Bo Schembechler as head football coach, beginning a new era of success for Michigans football program. The combination of Canhams aggressive marketing efforts and Schembechlers....
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Orville Lothrop Freeman was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was one of the founding members of the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party and strongly influential in the merger of the preDFL Minnesota Democratic and FarmerLabor Parties. Freeman nominated Kennedy for President at the 1960 Democ....
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward , August 1914 , and The Gulag Archipelago . Solzhenitsyn was a....
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Konrad Heubeck was a Knights Cross of the Iron Cross holder and a member of the Waffen SS he held the rank of Untersturmfuhrer. As a member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Regiment he participated in both the occupation of the Sudetenland and the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia on 15 March 1939. He won the Iron Cross 2nd class during the Battle of France, and was past of Operation Barbarosa where he was awarded the Winter War medal. He would go on to command the 1st Company, SS Panzer Re....
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African antiapartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the countrys first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as ....
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Griffin Boyette Bell was an American lawyer and former United States Attorney General. He served as the nations 72nd Attorney General during the Jimmy Carter administration. He was an attorney with the law firm King amp Spalding.....
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Manuel Carbonell was regarded as the last of the Cuban Master Sculptors. He was part of the generation of Cuban artists, which includes Wifredo Lam and Agustin Cardenas, that studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana Cuba. Carbonells inexhaustible vision and his ever changingstyle are the product of a brilliant talent and academic background. Ceaselessly searching for the essence of form and the absence of details, he empowered a sense of strength, monumentality and ....
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Otis Ray Bowen was a U.S. politician and physician. He served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1985 to 1989.....
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Franz Schall was a German World War II fighter ace. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. He was 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 leadershipfor the fighter pilots, it was a quantifiable measure of skill and combat success.....
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Elizabeth Ann Betty Ford was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford. As First Lady, she was active in social policy and created precedents as a politically active presidential wife.....
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William Frazier Thomas was a Chicago television personality. While Thomas became the author of nine childrens books, he was best known for creating, hosting, writing and producing the longrunning childrens television program Garfield Goose and Friends on WGNTV.....
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Frederick Kenneth Blassie , better known as Classy Freddie Blassie, was an American professional wrestling villain and manager born in St. Louis, Missouri. Renowned as The Fashion Plate of Professional Wrestling, He was also a onetime NWA Georgia Heavyweight Champion and a onetime NWA Florida Heavyweight Champion.....
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Otto Christian Ites was a Kapitnleutnant with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and later a Konteradmiral with the Bundesmarine. 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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Frederick C. Murphy was a recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II while a member of the US 65th Infantry Division.....
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James R. Michels was a United States Marine corporal who served in World War II. He was part of the combat patrol that climbed up Mount Suribachi and raised the first American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima, on February 23, 1945.....
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James Jim Perry Muri was an American World War II pilot. His United States Army Air Forces squadron helped protect Midway Island during the war by attacking a Japanese aircraft carrier task force.....
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Paul Becker was a highly decorated Unteroffizier of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was born on 26 February 1902 in BocholtWestphalia. He became a NSDAP member 1 April 1933 under the NSDAP Membership Number 1 792 251. On joining the SS he was issued the service number 88 953. 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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Frederick Reines was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his codetection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties.....
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