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| x Empedocles |
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Empedocles (Greek: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, ca. 490–430 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for being the origin of the cosmogenic theory of the four classical...
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| x Brittanie Cecil |
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Brittanie Nichole Cecil (March 20, 1988 – March 18, 2002) was a hockey fan who died from injuries suffered when a puck was deflected into the stands and struck her in the left temple at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, on March 16, 2002. It was...
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| x Pyrrhus of Epirus |
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Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (Greek: Πύρρος, Pyrros; 319-272 BC) was a Greek general of the Hellenistic era. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house (from ca. 297 BC), and later he became King of Epirus (306-302, 297-272 BC)...
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| x Philetas of Cos |
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Philitas or Philetas of Cos (c. 340 – c. 285 BC) was a scholar and poet during the early Hellenistic period of ancient Greece. A Greek associated with Alexandria, he flourished in the second half of the 4th century BC and was appointed tutor to the...
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| x Chrysippus |
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Chrysippus of Soli (c.280–c.207 BC) (Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς, Chrysippos ho Soleus) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of Cleanthes, and his successor, in 230 BC, as third head of the Stoic school. A prolific writer, Chrysippus expanded the...
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| x Eleazar Maccabeus |
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Eleazar Maccabeus, also known as Eleazar Hachorani/Choran(or Horani) (b. ???BC - d. 162 BC; Hebrew: אלעזר המכבי, אלעזר החורני Eleazar HaMakabi) was the youngest son of Mattathias and the younger brother of Judas Maccabeus. He was killed at the...
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| x Herod the Great |
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Herod (Hebrew: הוֹרְדוֹס, Horodos, Greek: Ἡρῴδης, Hērōdēs), also known as Herod I or Herod the Great (born 74 BC, died 4 BC in Jericho, was a Roman client king of Israel. He is often confused with his son Herod Antipas, also of the Herodian dynasty...
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| x Saint Peter |
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Simon Peter Greek: Πέτρος, Pétros “Rock”, Kephas in Hellenized Aramaic) (c.1–AD 64) was a leader of the early Christian Church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. Peter was the son of John, and was...
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| x Saint Antipas |
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Saint Antipas is referred to in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 2:13) as the "faithful martyr" of Pergamon. According to Christian tradition, John the Apostle ordained Antipas as bishop of the Pergamon during the reign of the Roman emperor...
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| x Valerian |
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Publius Licinius Valerianus (c. 200 - after 260), commonly known in English as Valerian or Valerian I, was the Roman Emperor from 253 to 260.
Unlike the majority of the pretenders during the Crisis of the Third Century, Valerian was of a noble and...
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| x Hypatia of Alexandria |
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Hypatia of Alexandria (pronounced /haɪˈpeɪʃə/ in English) (Greek: Ὑπατία; born between 350 and 370 – 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She...
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| x Béla I of Hungary |
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Béla I the Champion or the Bison (Hungarian: I. (Bajnok/Bölény) Béla; c. 1016 – 11 September 1063) was King of Hungary from 1060 until hsi death. He descended from a younger branch of the Árpád dynasty and spent seventeen years in exile, probably in...
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| x Henry I of England |
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Henry I (c. 1068/1069 – 1 December 1135) was the fourth son of William I the Conqueror. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106. He was...
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| x Al-Musta'sim |
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Al-Musta'sim Billah (full name: al-Musta'sim-Billah Abu-Ahmad Abdullah bin al-Mustansir-Billah; Arabic: المستعصم بالله أبو أحمد عبد الله بن المستنصر بالله; 1213 – February 20, 1258) was the last Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad; he ruled from 1242 until...
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| x Duns Scotus |
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Blessed John (Johannes) Duns Scotus, O.F.M. (c. 1266 – December 8, 1308) was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought.
Scotus...
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| x Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford |
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Humphrey VIII de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (1276 – 16 March 1322) was a member of a powerful Anglo-Norman family of the Welsh Marches and was one of the Ordainers who opposed Edward II's excesses.
Humphrey de Bohun's birth year is uncertain...
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| x Edward II of England |
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Edward II, (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327?) called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. He was the seventh Plantagenet king, in a line that began with the reign of Henry II. Interspersed...
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| x Martin I of Aragon |
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Martin of Aragon (1356 – 31 May 1410), called the Elder, the Humane, the Ecclesiastic, was the King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia, and Corsica and Count of Barcelona from 1396 and King of Sicily from 1409 (as Martin II). He was the last direct...
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| x George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence |
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George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (21 October 1449 – 18 February 1478) was the third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of kings Edward IV and Richard III. He played an important role in the dynastic...
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| x György Dózsa |
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György Dózsa (or, in some sources, György Székely; 1470 - 20 July 1514) was a Székely Hungarian man-at-arms (and by some accounts, a nobleman) from Transylvania who led a peasants' revolt against the Hungarian landed nobility. He was eventually...
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| x Humayun |
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Humayun (full title: Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu'l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu'llah ) (Persian: نصيرالدين همايون) (March 17, 1508 – March 4,...
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| x Henry II of France |
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Henry II (31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) of the House of Valois and son and successor of Francis I was King of France from 31 March 1547, until his death in 1559.
Henry was born in the Royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, the son of...
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| x Nanda Bayin |
Nanda, Nanda Bayin (or Nandabayin; - 1600), was the king of the Taungoo Dynasty of Myanmar from 1581 to 1599. He succeeded his father Bayinnaung.
Nanda Bayin was the first son of King Bayinnaung of Pegu. He was made the crown prince upon the...
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| x Tycho Brahe |
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Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (de Knudstrup) (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of...
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| x Arthur Aston |
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Sir Arthur Aston (1590–1649) was a lifelong professional soldier, most noted for his support for King Charles I in the English Civil War, and in folklore for the gruesome manner of his death. He was a native of Cheshire and from a prominent Roman...
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| x Thomas Urquhart |
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Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (or Urchard, 1611-c. 1660) was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his translation of Rabelais.
Urquhart was born to an old landholding family in Cromarty in northern Scotland. At the age of eleven he...
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| x François Vatel |
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François Vatel (1631 – April 24, 1671) was a French chef, famous for inventing Chantilly cream, a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV by Louis, the great Condé in April...
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| x Molière |
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molière, (January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known dramas...
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| x Jean-Baptiste Lully |
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Jean-Baptiste de Lully (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃batist də lyˈli]; Italian: Giovanni Battista di Lulli) (November 28, 1632 – March 22, 1687), was a French composer of Italian birth, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of...
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| x Julien Offray de La Mettrie |
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (December 25, 1709 - November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work L'homme machine ("Machine man"),...
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| x Georg Wilhelm Richmann |
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Georg Wilhelm Richmann (Russian: Георг Вильгельм Рихман) (July 22, 1711 – August 6, 1753 (old style: July 11, 1711 – July 26, 1753)) was a German physicist living in Russia.
He was born into a Baltic German family in Pernau (today Pärnu, Estonia) in...
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| x Adolf Frederick of Sweden |
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Adolf Frederick or Adolph Frederick (Swedish: Adolf Fredrik, German: Adolph Friedrich) (Gottorp, 14 May 1710 – Stockholm, 12 February 1771) was King of Sweden from 1751 until his death. He was the son of Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince...
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| x John Kendrick |
John Kendrick (c. 1740 – 12 December 1794) was an American sea captain, both during the American Revolutionary War and the exploration of the Pacific Northwest alongside his partner Robert Gray.
He was born around 1740 or 1745 in Harwich,...
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| x William Huskisson |
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William Huskisson PC (11 March 1770 – 15 September 1830) was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool. He is best known today, however, as the world's first widely reported railway...
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| x David Douglas |
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David Douglas (25 June 1799 – 12 July 1834) was a Scottish botanist. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish highlands, North America, and Hawaii, where he died.
The son of a stonemason, he was born in the village of Scone north-east of...
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| x Jim Creighton |
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James Creighton, Jr. (April 15, 1841 – October 18, 1862) was a pitcher in baseball's earliest era. Among his many accomplishments, he was in all likelihood the first professional ballplayer, threw the first fastball, completed the first recorded...
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| x Matthew Vassar |
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Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792 – June 23, 1868) was an English-born American brewer and merchant. He founded the eponymous Vassar College in 1861. He was a cousin of John Ellison Vassar.
He was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, England. In 1796, he...
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| x Salomon August Andrée |
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Salomon August Andrée (October 18, 1854 – October 1897), during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who perished during a failed attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by...
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| x Knut Frænkel |
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Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel (born 14 February 1870, died probably at the end of October 1897) was a Swedish engineer and arctic explorer who perished in the Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 of S. A. Andrée in 1897.
Frænkel was born in Karlstad,...
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| x Nils Strindberg |
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Nils Strindberg (1872 – 1897) was a Swedish photographer who was one of the three members of S. A. Andrée's ill-fated Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. Before perishing on Kvitøya with Andrée and Knut Frænkel, Strindberg recorded on film their long...
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| x Franz Reichelt |
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Franz Reichelt (1879- February 4, 1912) was an Austrian tailor best known for his accidental death.
Reichelt, known as the flying tailor, designed an overcoat to fly or float its wearer gently to the ground like the modern parachute. To demonstrate...
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| x Grigori Rasputin |
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин) (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1869 – 29 December [O.S. 16 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II,...
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| x Gustav Kobbé |
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Gustav Kobbé M.A. (born New York City, 4 March 1857; died Great South Bay off Bay Shore, New York, 27 July 1918) was an American music critic and author, best known for his guide to the operas, The Complete Opera Book, first published (posthumously)...
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| x Martha Mansfield |
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Martha Mansfield (July 14, 1899 – November 30, 1923) was an American actress in silent films and vaudeville stage plays.
Born Martha Ehrlich in Mansfield, Ohio in 1899, Mansfield was raised in New York. In 1912, she was left in her mother's care...
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| x George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon |
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George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (June 26, 1866 – April 5, 1923) was an English aristocrat best known as the financier of the excavation of the Egyptian New Kingdom Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the...
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| x Zishe Breitbart |
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Zishe (Siegmund) Breitbart (February 22, 1893 – October 12, 1925) was a Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folklore hero. He was known as the "Strongest Man in the World" and "The Ironking" during the 1920s, and was born...
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| x J.G. Parry-Thomas |
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John Godfrey Parry-Thomas (6 April 1884 – 3 March 1927) was a Welsh engineer and motor-racing driver who at one time held the Land Speed Record. He was the first driver to be killed in pursuit of the land speed record.
Parry-Thomas was born in...
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| x Isadora Duncan |
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Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 – September 14, 1927) was an American dancer. She was born Angela Isadora Duncan in San Francisco, California. Isadora Duncan is considered by many to be the mother of modern dance. Although popular in the United States...
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| x Alexander Bogdanov |
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Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov Russian: Александр Александрович Богданов (born Alyaksandr Malinouski, Belarusian: Аляксандар Маліноўскі) (22 August 1873 [O.S. 11 March], Hrodna, Russian Empire (now Belarus) –7 April 1928, Moscow) was a Russian...
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| x Eben Byers |
Eben McBurney Byers (April 12, 1880 – March 31, 1932) was a wealthy American socialite, athlete, and industrialist. Byers earned notoriety in the early 1930s when he died from radiation poisoning after consuming a popular patent medicine made from...
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| x Michael Malloy |
Michael Malloy (1873 – February 22, 1933) was an Irish vagrant from County Donegal who lived in New York City during the early twentieth century. Although he was a former firefighter, he is solely known for his constitution. He survived several...
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| x Len Koenecke |
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Len George Koenecke (January 18, 1904 in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA – September 17, 1935 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was an American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. He was beaten to death with a fire...
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| x Marcus Garvey |
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African...
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| x Sherwood Anderson |
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Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. That work's influence on American fiction was profound, and its literary voice can be heard in...
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| x Alexander Woollcott |
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Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
He was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the main character in...
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| x Thomas Midgley, Jr. |
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Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944), was an American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and held over a hundred patents. While...
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| x Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. |
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Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., (1921 – September 15, 1945) was an Armenian-American physicist with the Manhattan Project who accidentally irradiated himself on August 21, 1945 during a critical mass experiment at the remote Omega Site facility at Los...
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| x Louis Slotin |
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Louis Alexander Slotin (December 1, 1910 – May 30, 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project.
As part of the Manhattan Project, Slotin performed experiments with uranium and plutonium cores to determine their...
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| x Homer Lusk Collyer |
Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Collyer (October 3, 1885 – March 1947) were two American brothers who became famous because of their snobbish nature, filth in their homes, and compulsive hoarding.
The brothers are...
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| x Margo Jones |
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Margo Jones (December 12, 1911 - July 26, 1955) was an influential American stage director and producer. Her life's passion was theater, and she is best known for launching the American regional theater movement and for introducing the theater-in...
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