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Alexander de Cadenet is a British artist working in various media predominantly painting, photography and sculpture. He is most known for his skull portraits that are set within the tradition of Vanitas. He defines his art work as a way to give experience meaning in a tangible form it is an exploration into the mysteries and sacredness of life and its presentation through art.....
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Gary Bradberry is an American stock car racing driver. He raced in the NASCAR AllPro Series, and had topten points finishes from 19901993. After that, Bradberry made the jump to major NASCAR leagues. His younger brother was fellow NASCAR driver Charlie Bradberry, who died in an automobile accident in 2006.....
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Andi Eleazu Peters is an English television presenter, producer, journalist, voiceover artist, and voice actor currently employed by ITV.....
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Glenn F. Ivey is the former States Attorney for Prince Georges County, Maryland . He was a candidate for the 4th Congressional District in Maryland in 2016, seeking to replace the retiring Donna Edwards. ....
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Colonel George Thomas Clark was a British surgeon and engineer. He was particularly associated with the management of the Dowlais Iron Company. He was also an antiquary and historian of Glamorgan.....
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Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM radio. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers , the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and included in the International Telecommunication Unions roster of great inventors.....
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Armando Anthony Chick Corea is an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer.....
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, , often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskells The Life of Charlotte Bront, published in 1857, was the first biography about Bront. Some of Gaskells best known novels are C....
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Elliot Aronson is an American psychologist. He is listed among the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century and is best known for the invention of the Jigsaw Classroom as a method of reducing interethnic hostility and prejudice. He is also known for his research on cognitive dissonance and his influential social psychology textbooks. In his text, The Social Animal, , he stated Aronsons First Law People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy, thus asserting the importance of si....
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Lieutenant Desmond Percival Fitzgerald Uniacke was a British World War I flying ace credited with thirteen aerial victories. He was captured after engaging in aerial combat with Hermann Gring, commander of Jasta 27.....
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Eric Henri Kennington RA was an English sculptor, artist and illustrator, and an official war artist in both World Wars.....
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Irene Rice Pereira was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America. She is known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and lyrical abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. Pereiras paintings and writings were influenced significantly by the complex intellectual currents of the 20th century.....
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Horatio Alger Jr. was a prolific 19thcentury American author, best known for his many youngadult fiction novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middleclass security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the rags to riches narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.....
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Albert Jacka, VC, MC amp Bar was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. Jacka was the first Australian to be decorated with the VC during the First World War, receiving the medal for his actions during the Gallipoli Campaign. He later served on the Western Front and was twice further decorated for his bravery.....
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Lawrence Stanley Lee was a British stained glass artist whose work spanned the latter half of the 20th160century. He was best known for leading the project to create ten huge windows for the nave of the new Coventry Cathedral. His other work includes windows at Guildford and Southwark Cathedrals as well as a great number of works elsewhere in the UK, and some in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.....
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Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, GCMG PC , was a politician and a father of Canadian Confederation.....
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon , English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.....
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