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Karel Jaromr Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid19th century, best known for his collection Kytice , which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes.....
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Lata Pada, CM is an Indianborn Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer. Pada is the founder and artistic director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the founder and director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UKbased Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing. Pada founded the dance company in 1990....
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Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.....
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Ottfried Fischer is a German actor and Kabarett artist best known for his role as Benno Berghammer in the popular German TV series Der Bulle von Tlz. He is a supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.....
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Mary Katherine HoronyCummings , better known as Big Nose Kate, was a Hungarianborn prostitute and longtime companion and commonlaw wife of Old West gunfighter Doc Holliday.....
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William Franklin Billy Graham, Jr., KBE is an American evangelical Christian evangelist, ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, who rose to celebrity status in 1949 reaching a core constituency of middleclass, moderately conservative Protestants. He held large indoor and outdoor rallies sermons were broadcast on radio and television, some still being rebroadcast today. In his six decades of television, Graham is principally known for hosting the annual Billy Graham Crusades, which he began in....
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GustavAdolf von Zangen was a German general and the commander of the German 15th Army in the Netherlands in 1944 during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Leonard Wells Volk was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures.....
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Kurt Haehling was a highly decorated Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II. 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. Kurt Haehling was captured by Soviet troops in May 1945 in the Courland Pocket. He was held until 1951.....
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Leonora Speyer, Lady Speyer was an American poet and violinist.....
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Leon Trotsky born Lev Davidovich Bronstein 7 November1601601879 21 August 1940 was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founding leader of the Red Army.....
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Marie Skodowska Curie , born Maria Salomea Skodowska , was a Polish and naturalizedFrench physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed o....
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LieutenantGeneral Robert Harry Doherty Rogers SSA SM MMM DSO DFC amp bar was a Chief of the South African Air Force. He joined the South African Air Force in 1940, and served in World War II and the Korean War. He subsequently rose through the ranks to become Chief of the SAAF. After his military career he entered politics and served as a Member of Parliament.....
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Alois Maxwell Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his millionselling recordings of Java and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn , and for the theme song to The Green Hornet. His nicknames included Jumbo and The Round Mound of Sound. Colin Escott, an author of musician biographies, wrote that RCA Victor Records, for which Hirt had recorded most of his bestselling recordings and for which he had spent much of his professional recording career, had dubbed ....
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Mark Edward Petersen was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1944 until his death. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he filled the vacancy in the Quorum caused by the excommunication of Richard R. Lyman. Petersen had become managing editor of the churchowned Deseret News in 1935 and editor in 1941.....
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Lotta Crabtree was an American actress, entertainer and comedian. She was also a philanthropist.....
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Andr Armand VingtTrois is a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop of Paris, having previously served as Archbishop of Tours from 1999 to 2005. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2007.....
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Babson Prize of the Gravity Foundation Westinghouse Science Writing Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers Priestley Medallion of Dickinson College Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences Public Service Medal of the Minnesota Museum of Science Andrew Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics....
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Andrew Dickson White was an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curriculae. A politician, he had served as state senator in New York later he was appointed as a U.S. diplomat to Germany and Russia, among other responsibilities.....
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