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Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf is a German aviator, airline executive and religious leader. He currently serves as the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and is the eighth most senior apostle in the ranks of the church.....
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Jacob Franois Marulaz or Marola, born 6 November 1769, died 10 June 1842, joined the Army of the Kingdom of France as a cavalry trooper and rose to become a field officer during the French Revolutionary Wars. Under the First French Empire, he became a general officer and fought under Emperor Napoleon I of France in two notable campaigns.....
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski, GBE was a Polish pianist and composer, politician, and spokesman for Polish independence. He was a favorite of concert audiences around the globe. His musical fame opened access to diplomacy and the media.....
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Gordon Granger was a career U.S. army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Chickamauga.....
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Francis Lederer was an Austrianborn film and stage actor with a successful career, first in Europe, then in the United States.....
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General Maha Bandula was commanderinchief of the Royal Burmese Armed Forces from 1821 until his death in 1825 in the First AngloBurmese War. Bandula was a key figure in the Konbaung dynastys policy of expansionism in Manipur and Assam that ultimately resulted in the war and the beginning of the downfall of the dynasty. Nonetheless, the general, who died in action, is celebrated as a national hero by the Burmese for his resistance to the British. Today, some of the most prominent places in the c....
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Karan Dewan was an Indian cinema actor in Hindi films. He worked in over seventy films from 194179. He started as a journalist while still in college, editing a filmbased magazine in Urdu. His brother was a film producer and director, Jaimani Dewan.....
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Everett Shinn was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School. He also exhibited with the shortlived group known as The Eight, who protested the restrictive exhibition policies of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design. He is best known for his robust paintings of urban life in New York and London, a hallmark of Ashcan art, and for his theater and residential murals and interiordesign projects. His style varied considerably over the years, from gritty and realisti....
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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s he was one of the Big Four key Republicans who largely controlled the major decisions of the Senate.....
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George Paulding Farnham was an American jewelry designer, sculptor and metallurgist that worked for Tiffany amp Co. in the late 19th and early 20th century. Farnham married American sculptor Sally James Farnham in 1896. After leaving Tiffany amp Co. in 1908, Farnham focused his interests to developing mining properties in British Columbia. He divorced Sally Farnham in 1915 and moved to California, where he died in 1927.....
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Dr. James Naismith was a Canadian physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891. He wrote the original basketball rulebook and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament and the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Champi....
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Douglas Wayne Sahm was an American musician from Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he was a child prodigy in country music but became a significant figure in roots rock and other genres. Sahm is considered one of the most important figures in what is identified as TexMex music. He was the founder and leader of the 1960s rock and roll band, the Sir Douglas Quintet. He would later cofound the Texas Tornados with Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, and Flaco Jimnez as well as Los Super Seven.....
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Marc Dutroux is a Belgian serial killer and child molester, convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls from 1995 to 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. His wife, Michelle Martin, was convicted as an accomplice. Dutroux was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. He was arrested in 1996 and has been in prison ever since, though he briefly escaped in April 1998.....
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Gyula Germanus , alias Julius Abdulkerim Germanus, was a professor of oriental studies, a Hungarian writer and Islamologist, member of the Hungarian Parliament and member of multiple Arabic academies of science, who made significant contributions to the study of the Arabic language, history of language and cultural history. He was a follower of the famous orientalist, Sir rmin Vmbry and became a scholar of world repute.....
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Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov , 1818, Nizhny Novgorod1883, ibidem was a Russian writer, best known for his novels In the Forests and On the Hills, which describe the unique life of Transvolga and use its dialects.....
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Maria Jacobsen was a Danish missionary and a key witness to the Armenian Genocide. Jacobsen wrote the Diaries of a Danish Missionary Harpoot, 19071919, which according to Armenian Genocide scholar Ara Sarafian, is a documentation of the utmost significance for research of the Armenian Genocide. For her humanitarian efforts, Jacobsen is known as Mayrik or Mama for having saved many Armenians during the Genocide.....
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Maria Owings Shriver is an American journalist, activist, author of six bestselling books, and former First Lady of California as the estranged wife of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has received a Peabody Award and was coanchor for NBCs Emmywinning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimers Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts amp Sciences award for developing a television show with a conscience. She....
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Martin Augustine Knapp was a United States federal judge.....
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Philipp, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse was head of the Electoral House of Hesse from 1940 to 1980.....
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