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Gerald Phillip Gerry Garson is a former New York Supreme Court Justice who heard matrimonial divorce and child custody cases in Brooklyn. He was convicted in 2007 of accepting bribes to manipulate the outcomes of divorce proceedings. Garson was imprisoned from June 2007 until December 2009.....
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Gerald Paul Jerry Carr , , is an American mechanical and aeronautical engineer, former United States Marine Corps officer, naval aviator, and former NASA astronaut. He was Commander of Skylab 4, the third and final manned visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from November 16, 1973 to February 8, 1974.....
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Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artists obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.....
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Claus Luthe was a German car designer, noted for his design work on the NSU Ro 80, Volkswagen K70 and numerous seminal models from Audi and BMW. Luthe was a pioneer of aerodynamics and digital design within the automotive field.....
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Bal Patil was a Jain scholar, journalist, social activist and Jain minority status advocate from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was appointed as a member of State Minority Commission by the Govt. of Maharashtra from 2001 to 2004. He was the SecretaryGeneral of All India Jain Minority Forum, New Delhia position he held till his deathand was an ardent advocate of minority status for Jainism. The Jain minority cause gained prominence when he petitioned the Supreme Court of India for the recognition of Ja....
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Abby Dalton is an American actress, known for her television roles on the sitcoms Hennesey and The Joey Bishop Show , and as Julia Cumson in the prime time soap opera, Falcon Crest .....
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Barbara Gittings was a prominent American activist for gay equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 196366, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that brought attention to the ban on employment of gay people by the largest employer in the US at that time the United States government. Her early experiences with trying to learn more about lesbianism fueled her....
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Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect and professor emeritus.....
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Diane Washburn is a former fashion model for Rose Marie Reid, Roos Brothers and Lily Ann as well as appearing in ads for Chevrolet and taking the cover of Life Magazine in 1953. Most notable as Californias 1953 National Vintage Queen, Washburn is also the wife of late Broadway actor Jack Washburn.....
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Richard Claxton Dick Gregory is an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, and comedian.....
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Richard Lewis Dick Thornburgh is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 41st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991.....
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Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design. His unobtrusive approach and belief in less but better design generated a timeless quality in his products and have influenced the design of many products, which also secured Rams worldwide recognition and appreciation.....
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Alan LaVern Bean , , is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirtyseven years in November 1969. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second man....
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Frances Elizabeth Fran Allen is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. She also had a role in intelligence work on programming languages and security codes for the National Security Agency.....
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Sri Lankabhimanya Lakshman Kadirgamar, PC was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and statesmen. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2001 and again from April 2004 until his assassination in August 2005.....
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Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with an early usage of the term electronic super highway in application to telecommunications.....
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Oleg Borisovich Lupanov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, dean of the Moscow State Universitys Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics , head of the Chair of Discrete Mathematics of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics .....
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Jacques Ren Chirac is a French politician, who served as the President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976, from 1986 to 1988, and as the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.....
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Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov is a former Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With his wife Ludmila Belousova he is a twotime Olympic champion and fourtime World champion . In 1979 the pair defected to Switzerland and became Swiss citizens in 1995. They continued to skate at ice shows and exhibitions through their seventies.....
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Olga Fikotov is a Czechoslovak and later American discus thrower. She is best known for winning gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and for her romance across Cold War barriers with American hammer gold medalist Hal Connolly.....
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