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Ladi6 is a recording artist of Samoan descent. She spent six months living in Berlin and touring Europe in both 2010 and 2011. Her debut album Time Is Not Much debuted at number 4 on the New Zealand Top 40 Album chart. and her second album The Liberation Of... debuted at number 6 and was certified gold. Her single Like Water was certified platinum in June 2011. She has won many awards, including Best Female Solo Artist and Best Urban Hip Hop Album at the 2011 New Zealand Music Awards and Best U....
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Dirk Alan Shafer was an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, he was most noted in the modeling world for having been Playgirl magazines 1992 Man of the Year. Shafer related that he did Playgirl for validation as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive. Shafer wrote, directed and starred in Man of the Year, a 1995 mockumentary about his time as a semicloseted gay man in the role of a heterosexual sex symbol. Shafers next directorial p....
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Gnther Josten was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 178 enemy aircraft shot down in 420 combat missions, all of which claimed over the Eastern Front. Following World War II, he served in the newly established West German Luftwaffe in the Bundeswehr.....
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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India, who carried out groundbreaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon, subsequently known as Raman scattering, results from the Raman effect. In 1954 India honoured him with its highest civilian award, the Bharat Ra....
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Edward Hawker was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.....
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Edward Jenner Steptoe was an officer in the United States Army who served in the MexicanAmerican War and the Indian Wars. He is primarily remembered for his defeat at the Battle of Pine Creek during the SpokaneCoeur dAlenePaloos War. It was at Pine Creek where Steptoe and 164 men were ambushed by over 1000 Indian warriors. The battle, and the subsequent retreat, is also known as the Steptoe Disaster.....
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David Howell Petraeus AO is a retired American military officer and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a highly decorated fourstar general, serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan ....
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Christopher Anton Knight is an American actor. He is known for playing Peter Brady on the 1970s series, The Brady Bunch. He has since gone on to become a successful businessman and enjoyed a semiresurgence in the public eye with television appearances in the 2000s. His father, Edward Knight, was also an actor.....
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Ellen Stewart was an American theatre director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. . In the 1950s she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord amp Taylor, and Henri Bendel.....
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Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro was a Brazilian politician. He was born in Minas Gerais state to a Portuguese father and to a Portuguese Brazilian mother who traced her ancestry back to the early settlers of Brazil.....
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Geraldo Jos Rodrigues de Alckmin Filho is a Brazilian politician, who has been reelected in October 2014 as the governor of So Paulo, for the fourth time, and former candidate for president of Brazil in the 2006 Elections. He attended the Universidade de Taubats medical school, specializing in Anesthesiology, before going on to work in the So Paulo Public Service Hospital. He has been governor of So Paulo since 2011 and was reelected in October 2014 for his fourth term.....
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Heraclius II , also known as Erekle II and The Little Kakhetian , was a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798. His name is frequently transliterated in a Latinized form Heraclius because both names Erekle and Irakli are Georgian versions of this Greek name.....
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Klmn de Knya , Foreign Minister of Hungary during the Horthy era. He started his diplomatic career in Constantinople. In 1913 he appointed as AustroHungarian ambassador to Mexico later to Berlin. From 1933 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. During his ministership Hungary joined to the Tripartite Pact, the county became an ally of the Nazi Germany. Inside this he tried to counterbalance Germanys hegemony with increased cooperation with Italy. On the other hand, he kept good connections wi....
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Francisco de Zurbarn was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his stilllifes. Zurbarn gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled.....
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Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter, director, producer, playback singer, choreographer, lyricist, philanthropist and dancer who works primarily in the Tamil film industry. Haasan has won several Indian film awards including four National Film Awards and 19 Filmfare Awards. With seven submissions, Kamal Haasan has starred in the highest number of films submitted by India for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. Haasans production company, Rajkamal International, has prod....
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Albert Camus 7 November 1913 4 January 1960 was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.....
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