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Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New Yorks 31st congressional district from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Partys nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously con....
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Daniela WalkowiakPilecka is a retired Polish sprint canoer who competed in the 500 m singles and doubles at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics. She won an individual bronze medal in 1960 and placed fourtheighth in all her other events.....
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Forrest David Mathews served as the 11th United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1975 to 1977, during the administration of President Gerald R. Ford. He also served two nonconsecutive terms as the president of the University of Alabama. Since the 1980s he has been president and chief executive officer of the Kettering Foundation. He is the author of several books on democratic practice and education.....
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Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the eighth, now retired, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska.....
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Danilo Ki was a Serbian novelist, short story writer and poet who wrote in SerboCroatian, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Ki was influenced by Bruno Schulz, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Ivo Andri and Miroslav Krlea, among other authors. His most famous works include A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead.....
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Edward Joseph Johnston is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and former coach and general manager in the National Hockey League. While being the last NHL goaltender to play every minute of every game in a season, his professional career spanned more than 50 continuous years more than 45 of them were within the NHL. He won two Stanley Cups as a player with the Boston Bruins in 1970 and 1972, and a third in 2009 as senior advisor for hockey operations with the Pittsburgh Pengui....
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Nouhad Wadie Haddad , known as Fairuz , also spelled Fairouz, Feyrouz or Fayrouz, is a Lebanese singer who is one of the most widely admired and deeply respected living singers in the Arab world. Her songs are constantly heard throughout the region.....
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Faisal II was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was murdered during the 14 July Revolution together with numerous members of his family. This regicide marked the end of the thirtysevenyearold Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, which then became a republic.....
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Coast Guardsman Boatswain Mate First Class Ed Edgar A. Culbertson, 32, of Ferndale, Michigan, born October 13, 1935 lost his life on April 30, 1967 while trying to rescue three teenagers in Duluth, Minnesota. He was a Korean War Veteran, and had served in the Coast Guard since 1952.....
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Gary Berkovich, AIA, NCARB is an American and Soviet architect, and the first Soviet architect of 1960s 1980s immigration wave, who had opened his office in the United States. Author of about 200 projects of residential and public buildings in the USSR and in the USA. He is a winner of the architectural competitions in the Soviet Union and in the United States. He is also an author of books and professional articles.....
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Hans Breder born 1935 in Herford, Germany is a GermanAmerican artist who lives and works in Iowa.....
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Gary Player DMS, OIG is a retired South African professional golfer, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. Over his career, Player accumulated nine major championships on the regular tour and six Champions Tour major championship victories, as well as three Senior British Open Championships on the European Senior Tour. At the age of 29, Player won the 1965 U.S. Open and became the only nonAmerican to win all four majors, known as the career Grand Slam. Player be....
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Charlie Tagawa is a JapaneseAmerican musical entertainer, banjoist, and Japanese immigrant. His musical career has spanned seven decades and as a critically acclaimed performer he is regarded as one of the best banjo players and arguably one of the alltime best. He performs regularly across the U.S. and in Japan where he is known professionally as Japans Harry Reser. A 2003 inductee into the National FourString Banjo Hall of Fame, Tagawa often performs as the headline act at banjo jazz festiva....
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Edward Richard Schreyer PC CC CMM OM CD , commonly known as Ed Schreyer, is a Canadian politician, diplomat, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 22nd since Canadian Confederation.....
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Gene Elden Likens is an American limnologist and ecologist. He cofounded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in 1963, and founded the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York in 1983.....
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Cheng Siwei was a Chinese economist, chemical engineer and politician. He was the Chairman of China Soft Science Research Association President of the Chinese Society for Management Modernization Director of the Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences Dean of the School of Management of the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Honorary President of East China University of Science and Technology.....
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Harrison Hagan Jack Schmitt is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, university professor and former U.S. senator from New Mexico.....
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Harry Barkus Gray is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology.....
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David W. Harvey FBA is the Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . He received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city.....
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David Gordon Nobbs was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.....
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