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Oakland (pronounced /ˈoʊklənd/) is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California and a major West Coast port city, located on San Francisco Bay about eight miles east of the City of San Francisco. Oakland is a major hub city for the Bay...
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| x K. Eric Drexler |
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Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955 in Almeda, California) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at MIT was revised and published as...
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| x Lillian Moller Gilbreth |
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Lillian Moller Gilbreth, PhD, (May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was one of the first working female engineers holding a PhD. She was born in Oakland, California to William and Anne (née Delger) Moller.
She is arguably the first true industrial...
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| x Amy Tan |
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Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Enmei) (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer of Chinese descent whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a...
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| x Edwin Meese |
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Edwin "Ed" Meese III (born December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967-1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition...
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| x Billie Joe Armstrong |
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Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is the lead vocalist, chief songwriter and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and sings for garage rock band Foxboro Hot Tubs....
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| x Stanley Miller |
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Stanley Lloyd Miller (March 7, 1930 - May 20, 2007) was an American chemist and biologist who is known for his studies into the origin of life, particularly the Miller-Urey experiment which demonstrated that organic compounds can be created by...
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| x George Stevens |
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George Stevens (December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Born in Oakland, California, Stevens broke into the movie business as a cameraman, working on many Laurel and Hardy shorts....
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| x Mark Hamill |
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Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor, voice artist, producer, director and writer, Hamill is best known for his role of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the iconic voice of The Joker in the DC...
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| x Russ Meyer |
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Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 - September 18, 2004) was an American motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer.
Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful...
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| x Brandon Lee |
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Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) was an American actor. He was the son of the late legendary martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell and the brother of actress Shannon Lee. He was also the nephew of Robert Lee, a...
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| x Galen Rowell |
Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a noted wilderness photographer and climber. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972.
Rowell was introduced to wilderness at a very young age, and began...
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| x Don Budge |
John Donald ("Don" or "Donnie") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first man to win in a...
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| x Fernando J. Corbató |
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Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (born July 1, 1926 in Oakland, California) is a prominent American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems.
Amongst many awards, he received the Turing Award in 1990...
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| x Dontrelle Willis |
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Dontrelle Wayne Willis (born January 12, 1982, in Oakland, California), nicknamed "D-Train" and "D-Money," is a starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers organization.
Willis attended Encinal High School in Alameda, California, where he played...
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| x Chris Burford |
Christopher William Burford, III (born January 31, 1938 in Oakland, California) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football wide receiver. Burford was a master of sideline receptions for the Dallas Texans and the Kansas City Chiefs....
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| x Ron Dellums |
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Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums (born November 24, 1935 in Oakland, California) serves as Oakland's third African-American mayor. From 1971-1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California...
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| x Tony Martin |
Tony Martin (born December 25, 1913 ) is an American actor and traditional pop singer.
Tony Martin was born as Alvin Morris in San Francisco, California to Jewish immigrant parents. He received a saxophone as a gift from his grandmother at the age...
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| x Archie Williams |
Archibald ("Archie") Franklin Williams (May 1, 1915 – June 24, 1993) was an African-American athlete and teacher, winner of 400 meter run at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Born in Oakland, California, Archie Williams had one great year but he did more in...
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| x Jon Faddis |
Jon Faddis (born July 24, 1953 in Oakland, California), is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education....
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| x Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami |
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Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927 - 2001), affectionately known as Gurudeva by his followers, was born in Oakland, California on January 5, 1927 and adopted Saivism as a young man. He traveled to India and Sri Lanka where he received initiation from...
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| x Jon Barry |
Jon Alan Barry (born July 25, 1969 in Oakland, California) is a retired American professional basketball player and current television analyst for ABC and ESPN.
Barry is the son of Hall of Famer Rick Barry, and has three brothers: Scooter, Drew,...
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| x Sidney Howard |
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Sidney Coe Howard (26 June 1891 – 23 August 1939) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.
Howard was born in...
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| x John Markoff |
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John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at the The New York Times, and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.
Markoff was born in Oakland, California and grew...
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| x Thomas Schelling |
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Thomas Crombie Schelling (born 14 April 1921) is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. He is also co...
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| x Shemar Moore |
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Shemar Franklin Moore (born April 20, 1970) is an American actor and former male fashion model with Irene Marie Models, best known for his role as Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless, which he originally played from 1994 to 2002, and as...
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| x Gary Payton |
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Gary Dwayne Payton (born July 23, 1968) is a retired American professional basketball player. He is best known for his 12-year tenure with the Seattle SuperSonics. He has also played with the Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and...
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| x Ernie Lombardi |
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Ernesto Natali "Ernie" Lombardi (April 6, 1908 in Oakland, California – September 26, 1977 in Santa Cruz, California), was a Major League Baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Robins, the Cincinnati Reds, the Boston Braves and the New York Giants during...
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| x Jo Van Fleet |
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Jo Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an American theatre and film actress.
Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role,...
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| x Dave Stewart |
David Keith Stewart (born February 19, 1957 in Oakland, California) is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball during the late 1980s and early 1990s. A 20-game winner for 4 consecutive years, he was known for his post-season...
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| x Robert Culp |
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Robert Martin Culp (born August 16, 1930) is an American actor and scriptwriter, perhaps best known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965-1968), the espionage series, where...
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| x David Berg |
David Brandt Berg (born 18 February 1919 in Oakland, California, United States and died 1 October 1994 in Portugal), frequently known by the pseudonym Moses David, was the founder and leader of the Cult religious movement formerly called Children of...
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| x Paul Pierce |
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Paul Anthony Pierce (born October 13, 1977 in Oakland, California), nicknamed The Truth, is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. He earned First Team All-America honors in his junior year at Kansas, and has...
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| x Max Baer, Jr. |
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Max Baer, Jr. (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is the son of boxer Max Baer.
He was born Maximilian Adalbert Baer, Jr. in Oakland, California, the son of legendary boxing champion Max Baer and...
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| x Isaiah Rider |
Isaiah Rider, Jr., sometimes known as J.R. Rider (born March 12, 1971) is an American professional basketball player.
Rider was born in Oakland, California, and was raised in nearby Alameda. He starred in both baseball and basketball at Encinal High...
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| x Ted Lange |
Theodore "Ted" William Lange (born January 5, 1948) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the TV series The Love Boat.
Born in Oakland, California, Lange attended the Royal...
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| x Jeff Hanneman |
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Jeffery John "Jeff" Hanneman (born January 31, 1964) is a guitarist and a founding member of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Hanneman grew up in Los Angeles in a family of war veterans, and his fascination with warfare is attributed to his...
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| x Scotty Beckett |
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Scott Hastings "Scotty" Beckett (October 4, 1929 – May 10, 1968) was an American child actor. He is best remembered for his parts in the Our Gang and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger series.
Born in Oakland, California, Beckett got his start in show...
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| x Antonio Davis |
Antonio Lee Davis (born October 31, 1968, in Oakland, California, USA) is a retired American National Basketball Association (NBA) player. Davis is also the former president of the NBA Players Association (NBPA).
Davis played college basketball at...
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| x Drew Gooden |
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Andrew Melvin "Drew" Gooden (born September 24, 1981 in Oakland, California) is an American professional basketball player with the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA. Gooden is a 6'10", 250 lbs. power forward from the University of Kansas.
Before Gooden...
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| x Steve DeBerg |
Steven Leroy DeBerg (born January 19, 1954 in Oakland, California) had a long and varied career as an American Football quarterback. His career spanned 21 years over 3 decades. Despite the fact that large portions of his career were spent as a...
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| x Robert Flynn |
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Robb Flynn (born Lawrence Matthew Cardine, adopted, July 19, 1968, Oakland, California) is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the thrash metal band Machine Head. Flynn formed the band along with Adam Duce, Logan Mader and Tony...
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| x Wally George |
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George Walter Pearch, known as Wally George (4 December 1931 – 7 October 2003) was an American conservative radio and television commentator. Calling himself the "Father of Combat TV," George gained national fame as the host of the television talk...
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| x Gary Goldman |
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Gary Wayne Goldman (born November 17, 1944 in Oakland, California) is an American animator.
Goldman was born in Oakland, California and raised in Watsonville, California. As a youth, Goldman was active in sports, an infielder in baseball and...
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| x Kevin Cadogan |
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Kevin Rene Cadogan (born August 14, 1970 in Oakland, California) is an alternative rock guitarist and songwriter. He is most known for playing lead guitar in the band Third Eye Blind from 1994 to 2000, officially.
As a child, Cadogan spent two years...
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| x Mark Curry |
Mark G. Curry (born June 1, 1961) is an African-American actor and comedian. He is best known as the star of the ABC sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, and as one of the various hosts of the syndicated series It's Showtime at the Apollo.
He attended St...
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| x Donna Hanover |
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Donna Hanover (born February 13 , 1950) is an American journalist, radio and television personality, television producer, and actress, who appears on WOR radio in New York City and who also appears on the Food Network. From 1994 through 2001 she was...
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| x Mitchell Baker |
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Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker is the Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates...
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| x Jim Pollard |
James Clifford "Jim" Pollard (July 9, 1922 – January 22, 1993) was an American professional basketball player.
In college, Pollard played for Stanford and was a key member of Stanford's 1942 national championship team (though due to illness, he did...
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| x Brad Gilbert |
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Brad Gilbert (born August 9, 1961, in Oakland, California) is an American tennis coach, a television tennis commentator, and former professional tennis player. He is the current coach of Britain's No. 3 tennis player, Alex Bogdanović, as part of his...
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| x Shannon Lee |
Shannon Emery Lee (born April 19, 1969) is an American actress. She is the daughter of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell. The late Brandon Lee was her older brother.
Shannon was born in Los Angeles, California, the second...
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| x Marlin Briscoe |
Marlin Oliver Briscoe (born September 10, 1945 in Oakland, California) is a former professional American football wide receiver/quarterback who played for nine years. Before being drafted in 1967, Briscoe played high school football at Omaha South...
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| x David M. McIntosh |
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David Martin McIntosh (born June 8, 1958) is a lawyer who served as a Republican representative from Indiana from January 3, 1995, to January 3, 2001.
McIntosh was born in Oakland, California, but moved to his mother's hometown of Kendallville,...
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| x Alex Steffen |
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Alex Steffen (* 1968) is an American writer, blogger, editor and futurist most noted for his bright green ideas.
Steffen edits the online magazine Worldchanging, and is the site's Executive Editor and CEO. He also edited the book Worldchanging: A...
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| x Marvel Smith |
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Marvel Amos Smith (born August 6, 1978 in Oakland, California) is a former professional American football offensive tackle. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arizona...
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| x Deborah Driggs |
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Deborah Driggs (born December 13, 1963 in Oakland, California) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for March, 1990. She also appeared on the cover of the magazine for its April 1990 issue. She was...
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| x Mac Dre |
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Andre Hicks (July 5, 1970 – November 1, 2004), better known by his stage name Mac Dre, was one of the originators of hyphy and is generally considered the creator of Thizz music. He worked with well-known artists such as Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Richie...
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| x Mahershalalhashbaz Ali |
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Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (born February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He is perhaps most well known for his portrayal of Richard Tyler in the USA Network program The 4400 and "Tizzy" in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Ali was born...
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| x Arion Salazar |
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Arion Salazar (born Arion Gabriel Salazar, 9 August 1970, Oakland, California) was formerly the bassist for Third Eye Blind. Salazar was considered to be the most connected with the fans through the internet out of all the band members. He was...
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| x Goapele |
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Goapele (pronounced gwah-puh-LAY) is an African-American soul and R&B; singer-songwriter. Her name means "to go forward" in Setswana, the language of her paternal grandmother.
Goapele's South African father was an exiled political activist who...
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