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| Albert Speer |
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Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, pronounced [ˈʃpɛɐ]; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf...
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| Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (English pronunciation: /soʊlʒəˈniːtsɨn/ Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]) (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008) was a Soviet and Russian novelist,...
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| 亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴 | ||||
| African National Congress |
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ANC |
The African National Congress (ANC) has been South Africa's governing party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), since the establishment of non...
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| Adelaide of Italy |
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Saint Adelaide of Italy, also called Adelaide of Burgundy (931/932 – 16 December 999) was Holy Roman Empress and perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 10th century.
She was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia. Her...
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| Alexander Kerensky |
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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerenskii) (4 May [O.S. 22 April] 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian politician. He served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional...
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| Aung San Suu Kyi |
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi |
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Laureate and the democratically elected Prime Minister of Myanmar when her party the National League for Democracy won the 1990 general election. However, she has been in detention by the military junta since...
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| Al Capone |
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Scarface |
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
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| Alphonse Gabriel Capone | ||||
| Carl von Clausewitz |
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Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz |
Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz (pronounced /ˈklaʊzəvɪts/; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On...
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| Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz | ||||
| William Kidd |
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William "Captain" Kidd (c. 1645 – May 23, 1701) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians deem his piratical reputation unjust, as there is...
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| Daniel Defoe |
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Daniel Defoë |
Daniel Defoe (c.1659 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped...
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| Elizabeth I of England |
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Queen Elizabeth I of England |
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor...
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| Female | girl |
Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces ova (egg cells). The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced...
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| Giordano Bruno |
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Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600), was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer best known as a proponent of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican...
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| Henry Laurens |
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Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American merchant and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress Laurens...
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| John Donne |
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John Donne, pronounced /ˈdʌn/ "dun" (21 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English Jacobean poet, preacher and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include...
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| John Walker Lindh |
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John Phillip Walker Lindh (born February 9, 1981) was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. An American citizen, he is now serving a 20-year prison sentence in connection with his participation in...
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| Karl Dönitz |
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Karl Donitz |
Karl Dönitz (German pronunciation: [ˈdøːnɪts] ( listen); 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German naval Commander who served in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, commanded the German submarine fleet during World War II, and...
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| Kurt Vonnegut |
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Kilgore Trout |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist who wrote works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
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| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | ||||
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| Kathleen Soliah |
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Sara Jane Olson |
Sara Jane Olson, formerly Kathleen Ann Soliah (born January 16, 1947), was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in the 1970s. She grew up in Palmdale, California, the daughter of Palmdale High School teacher and coach Martin Soliah. She...
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| Kazimir Malevich |
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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (Russian: Казимир Северинович Малевич, Polish: Kazimierz Malewicz, Ukrainian: Казимир Северинович Малевич [kazɪˈmɪr sɛʋɛˈrɪnoʋɪtʃ mɑˈlɛʋɪtʃ], German: Kasimir Malewitsch, Belarusian: Казіме́р Мале́віч), (February 23,...
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| Leon Trotsky |
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Leon Trotsky (Russian: Лев Давидович Трóцкий (help·info), Ukrainian: Лев Давидович Троцький (Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Leo, Lyev, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) November 7, [O.S. October 26] 1879 – August 21, 1940), born...
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| Leonard Peltier |
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Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is an American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of...
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Republic of Mauritius |
Mauritius (pronounced /məˈrɪʃəs/; French: L’île Maurice pronounced: [lil mɔˈʁis], Mauritian Creole: Moris, Tamil: மொரிசிய குடியரசு) officially the Republic of Mauritius, French: République de Maurice is an island nation off the coast of the African...
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| Mahatma Gandhi |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, pronounced [moːɦənˈdaːs kəɾəmˈtʂənd ˈɡaːndʱiː] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence...
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| Mohandas Gandhi | ||||
| Miguel de Cervantes |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel ðe θerˈβantes saˈβeðɾa] in modern Spanish; September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, often considered the first...
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| Mark Whitacre |
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Mark E. Whitacre (born May 1, 1957) is the chief operating officer and President of Operations at Cypress Systems, a California biotechnology firm. He was the President of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) from 1989 to 1995....
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| Mieszko II Lambert |
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This article is about a Polish king. See also Duke Mieszko II the Fat.
Mieszko II Lambert (b. ca. 990 - d. 10/11 May 1034), was King of Poland during 1025-1031, and Duke from 1032 until his death.
He was the second son of Bolesław I the Brave, but...
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| Nelson Mandela |
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Rolihlahla Mandela |
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; born 18 July 1918) is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, who held office from 1994 to 1999. Before his...
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| Robben Island |
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Robben Island (Afrikaans Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, some seven kilometres off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide,...
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| Slobodan Milošević |
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Slobodan Milosevic |
Slobodan Milošević (sometimes transliterated as Miloshevich)(Serbian pronunciation: [sloˈbodan miˈloʃevitɕ] ( listen); Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић) (20 August 1941, Požarevac, Yugoslavia – 11 March 2006, The Hague, Netherlands) was...
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| Sun Myung Moon |
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Sun Myung Moon (born February 25, 1920) is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects involved in political, cultural, artistic, mass-media, educational, public...
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| Thomas More |
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Sir Thomas More |
Sir Thomas More (7 February or 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, scholar, author, and statesman.
During his life he gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, an opponent of the Reformation of...
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| Thomas Malory |
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Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. The antiquary John Leland (1506–1552) believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholars, beginning with G.L. Kittridge in 1894, assume...
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| Theodore Kaczynski |
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Unabomber |
Theodore John Kaczynski (pronounced /kəˈzɪnski/; born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber (University and Airline Bomber), is an American mathematician, social critic, and murderer who carried out a campaign of mail bombings.
He was born in...
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| The Unabomber | ||||
| Tower of London |
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Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is a historic fortress and scheduled monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located...
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| Timothy McVeigh |
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Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was a United States Army veteran and security guard who was convicted of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the Waco Siege, as...
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| William Penn |
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William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) was an English founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of...
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| Walter Raleigh |
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Sir Walter Raleigh |
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was a English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer.
Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. Little is known for...
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| William I of Scotland |
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William the Lion |
William I (Mediaeval Gaelic: Uilliam mac Eanric; Modern Gaelic: Uilleam mac Eanraig), known as the Lion or Garbh, "the Rough", (1142/1143 – 4 December 1214) reigned as King of Scots from 1165 to 1214. His reign was the second longest in Scottish...
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| Zhang Xueliang |
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Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang (simplified Chinese: 张学良; traditional Chinese: 張學良; pinyin: Zhāng Xuéliáng; Wade-Giles: Chang Hsüeh-liang; English occasionally: Peter Hsueh Liang Chang) (3 June 1901 (according to other accounts in 1898 or 1900)...
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| Maze |
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Her Majesty's Prison Maze (known colloquially as The H Blocks, Long Kesh, or The Maze) was a prison used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Northern Ireland Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000.
It is in the former Royal Air Force station at...
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| Fidel Castro |
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until...
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| Mike Tyson |
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Kid Dynamite |
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American boxer. He was the undisputed heavyweight champion and remains the youngest man ever to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles. He won the WBC title at just 20 years, 4...
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| Iron Mike | ||||
| Baddest kid on the planet | ||||
| Malik Abdul Aziz | ||||
| John Bunyan |
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John Bunyan (28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. In the Church of England, he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August.
Bunyan was born in Harrowden ...
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| Edward V of England |
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Edward V (4 November 1470 – probably 1483) was King of England from 9 April 1483 until his deposition two months later. His reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III. Along with...
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| John Dillinger |
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John Herbert Dillinger Jr. (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Midwest during the early 1930s. He was considered to be a dangerous criminal who was involved in the deaths of several police officers, robbed at least two...
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| John McCain |
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John Sidney McCain III |
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into...
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| Charles Ponzi |
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Charles Ponei |
Charles Ponzi (March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949) was one of the greatest swindlers in American history. His aliases include Charles Ponei, Charles P. Bianchi, Carl and Carlo. The term "Ponzi scheme" is a widely known description of any scam that...
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| Henry VI of England |
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Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England 1422–1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and controversial King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realms were governed by regents. Contemporaneously, he was described as a...
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| Margaret of Anjou |
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Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite d'Anjou; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was the wife of King Henry VI of England. As such, she was Queen consort of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471 and Queen consort of France from 1445 to...
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| Ben Jonson |
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Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which...
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| American Correctional Association |
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The American Correctional Association (ACA), formerly known as the American Prison Association, is the oldest and largest international correctional association in the world. Approximately 80 percent of all state departments of corrections and youth...
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| Nicolae Ceauşescu |
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Nicolae Ceausescu |
Nicolae Andruţă Ceauşescu (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e andru.t͡sə tʃa.uˈʃesku]) ( 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the Secretary General of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, President of the...
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| Erich Raeder |
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Erich Johann Albert Raeder (24 April 1876 – 6 November 1960) was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank—that of Großadmiral (Grand Admiral)—in 1939, becoming the first person to hold...
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| Eugene V. Debs |
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Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as candidate for President of the United...
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| John of Scotland |
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John de Balliol (c. 1249 – c. 25 November 1314) was elected King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.
Little of John's early life is known. He was born between 1248 and 1250 at an unknown location, possibilities including Galloway, Picardy and Barnard Castle...
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| Pete Rose |
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Charlie Hustle |
Peter Edward Rose (born April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989. He is best known for his 19 years with the Cincinnati Reds.
Rose, a...
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| Peter Edward "Pete" Rose, Sr. | ||||
| David Stirling |
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Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling DSO OBE (15 November, 1915 - 4 November, 1990) was a Scottish laird, mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.
Stirling was born at his family's ancestral home,...
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| Alcatraz Island |
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Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California. Often referred to as The Rock, the small island early-on served as a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison,...
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| Jiang Qing |
Jiang Qing (Chinese: 江青; pinyin: Jiāng Qīng; Wade-Giles: Chiang Ch'ing; March 14, 1914 - May 14, 1991) was the pseudonym that was used by Chinese leader Mao Zedong's last wife and major Chinese Communist Party power figure. She went by the stage...
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