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| Anaïs Nin |
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Anais Nin |
Anaïs Nin (Spanish pronunciation: [anaˈis ˈnin]; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) (February 21, 1903–January 14, 1977) was a French author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years,...
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| Cocaine |
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coke |
Cocaine (benzoylmethylecgonine) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous...
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| Francisco Goya |
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Francisco de Goya |
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of...
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| Heroin |
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Heroin, or diacetylmorphine (INN), also known as diamorphine (BAN), is a semi-synthetic opioid drug synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-diacetyl ester of morphine (di (two)-acetyl-morphine). The white...
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| Helen Keller |
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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the...
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| Hunter S. Thompson |
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Raoul Duke |
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters...
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| Jorge Luis Borges |
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo |
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (pronounced /ˈhɔr.heɪ luˈiːs ˈbɔr.hɛz/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes]), was an Argentine writer, essayist and poet born in...
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| Kary Mullis |
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Kary Banks Mullis (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Mullis shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith. Mullis received the prize for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a...
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Trip, Acid |
Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD-25, LSD, formerly lysergide, commonly known as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline and tryptamine families. LSD is non-addictive, non-toxic, and is well known for its psychological effects which...
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| Oliver Heaviside |
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Oliver Heaviside (18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of...
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| Richard Feynman |
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Richard Phillips Feynman |
Richard Phillips Feynman (pronounced /ˈfaɪnmən/ FYEN-mən; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the...
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| Steve Jobs |
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Steven Paul Jobs |
Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the...
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| Thomas Edison |
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Thomas Alva Edison |
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long...
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| Michael Bloomberg |
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg |
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the current Mayor of New York City. He was listed as the eighth-richest American, with a net worth of US $16 billion, in the Forbes 400 on September 17, 2008, making him the richest resident of...
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| Hearing impairment |
A hearing impairment or deafness is a full or partial decrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds. Caused by a wide range of biological and environmental factors, loss of hearing can happen to any organism that perceives sound. The term...
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| William McMahon |
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Sir William "Billy" McMahon |
Sir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH (23 February 1908 – 31 March 1988) was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia
McMahon was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where his father was a lawyer. He was of Irish...
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| Louis Braille |
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Louis Braille (English pronunciation: /ˈbreɪl/; French: [bʁɑj]) (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille, a worldwide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing the...
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| Larry Flynt |
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Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American publisher and the head of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at the top of the "50 Most Powerful People in Porn" list. Hugh Hefner was listed second.
LFP...
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| Christopher Reeve |
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Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. He achieved stardom for his acting achievements, including his notable motion picture portrayal of the fictional...
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| Didymus the Blind |
Didymus the Blind (c. 313 – 398) was an Eastern Church theologian of Alexandria whose famous Catechetical School, he led for about half a century. He became blind at a very young age, and therefore ignorant of the rudiments of learning. Yet, he...
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| Ahmed Yassin |
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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (1937 – 22 March 2004) (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل ياسين) was a founder of Hamas, a Palestinian paramilitary organization and political party. Yassin also served as the spiritual leader of the organization. Hamas...
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| Albert Hofmann |
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Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss scientist best known for having been the first to synthesize, ingest and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific...
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| Deafness |
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Deafness is a physical condition characterized by lack of sensitivity to sound.
The global deaf population is roughly estimated to be 0.1% of the total population (1 in 1000). The figure is likely to be higher in developing countries than...
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| Pierre de Ronsard |
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Pierre de Ronsard (11 September 1524 – December 1585) was a French poet and "prince of poets" (as his own generation in France called him).
Ronsard was born at the Manoir de la Possonnière, in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Loir-et-Cher. Baudouin...
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| Robert Downey Jr. |
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Robert Downey, Jr. |
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor, film producer, and musician. Downey made his screen debut at the age of five when he appeared in one of his father's films, and has worked consistently in film and television ever...
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| Woody Harrelson |
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Woodrow Tracy Harrelson |
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor.
Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd. Notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't...
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| Peter Fonda |
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Peter Henry Fonda |
Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, the brother of Jane Fonda, and the father of Bridget and Justin Fonda (by first wife Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich). Fonda is an icon of the...
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| Marlee Matlin |
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Marlee Beth Matlin |
Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress. Deaf since she was 18 months old, she is the youngest woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, which she won at the age of 21 for Children of a Lesser God....
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| David Blunkett |
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David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. Suffering from blindness since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived...
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| Juliette Gordon Low |
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Juliette Gordon Low (born Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon in Savannah, Georgia, October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912.
She became known as "Daisy" because her friends...
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| Ed Rosenthal |
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Ed Rosenthal (born Bronx, New York, 1944) is a California horticulturist, author, publisher, and Cannabis grower known for his advocacy for the legalization of marijuana (cannabis as a drug) use. He served as a columnist for High Times Magazine...
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| William Boyce |
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William Boyce (11 September 1711 – 7 February 1779) is widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th century.
Born in London, Boyce was a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral before studying music with Maurice Greene...
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| Quadriplegia |
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Tetraplegia |
Quadriplegia, also known as tetraplegia, is paralysis caused by illness or injury to a human that results in the partial or total loss of use of all of their limbs and torso; paraplegia is similar but does not affect the arms. The loss is usually...
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| Nicholas Saunderson |
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Nicholas Saunderson (1682–19 April 1739) was an English scientist and mathematician. According to one leading historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem.
Saunderson was born at Thurlstone, Yorkshire, in...
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| George Pataki |
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George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.
Pataki's...
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| Ram Dass |
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Richard Alpert (born April 6, 1931), also known as Baba Ram Dass, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who wrote the 1971 bestseller Remember Be Here Now. He is well known for his personal and professional association with Timothy Leary at Harvard...
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| James Brady |
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James Scott “Jim” Brady (born August 29, 1940, Centralia, Illinois) is a former Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary under U.S. President Ronald Reagan. After nearly being killed and becoming permanently disabled as a result of...
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| Deng Pufang |
Deng Pufang (simplified Chinese: 邓朴方; traditional Chinese: 鄧樸方; pinyin: Dèng Pǔfāng) (born 16 April 1944 in Zuoquan, Jinzhong, Shanxi) is the first son of former China's Paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. He is mostly known for being crippled by the...
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| Ior Bock |
Ior Bock (born Bror Holger Svedlin; January 17, 1942) claims that his family line (Boxström) has been keepers of an ancient folklore tradition passed down through the generations, that provides insight into the pagan culture of Finland and its...
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| Jack Herer |
Jack Herer (born June 18, 1939, in New York City, New York) is an American cannabis activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book which has been used in efforts to decriminalize cannabis.
A former Goldwater Republican, Herer is now...
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| Thomas D. Schall |
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Thomas David Schall (June 4, 1878 – December 22, 1935) was a American lawyer and politician. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota. He was initially elected as a Progressive but...
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| Evelyn Glennie |
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Glennie, Evelyn |
Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE (born July 19, 1965 in Aberdeen), is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.
Evelyn Glennie was brought up on a farm in Aberdeenshire...
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| Mo Mowlam |
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Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam (18 September 1949 – 19 August 2005) was a British Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Redcar from 1997 to 2001, and served in the Cabinet as both Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Chancellor of the...
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| Bob C. Riley |
Bob Cowley Riley (September 18, 1924 – February 16, 1994) was an American educator and politician who served as the Governor of Arkansas for eleven days in 1975. He had previously been a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1946 to...
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| Charles Clarke |
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Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Norwich South since 1997, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.
The son of Civil Service Permanent...
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| Brain damage |
Brain damage, or acquired brain injury, is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells.
Brain damage may occur due to a wide range of conditions, illnesses, injuries, and as a result of iatrogenesis. Possible causes of widespread (diffuse) brain...
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| Lon Chaney, Sr. |
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Leonidas Frank Chaney |
Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930), nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema. He is best remembered for his...
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| Jonathan Aitken |
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, and British government minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he...
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| Joseph Plateau |
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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 – September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist.
Born in Brussels, he studied at the University of Liège (Liège), where he graduated as a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1829. In 1835,...
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| Oliver Letwin |
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Oliver Letwin (born 19 May 1956, Hampstead) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is currently a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of West Dorset, and is the Chairman of the Conservative Research Department and Chairman of...
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| Gertrude Ederle |
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Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 – November 30, 2003) was an American competitive swimmer. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Gertrude was the daughter of a German immigrant who ran a butcher shop on...
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| Tim Yeo |
Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo (born 20 March 1945, Lewisham), is an English Conservative politician, Member of Parliament for South Suffolk and the current Chairman of the Environmental Audit Select Committee.
He was educated at Charterhouse School...
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| ONCE |
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ONCE (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈonθe]), or Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (National Organization of the Spanish Blind), is a Spanish foundation founded on December 13, 1938 to raise funds with which to provide services for the blind and...
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| Royal National Institute of the Blind |
RNIB is a UK charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people in the UK with sight loss.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) was founded by Thomas Rhodes Armitage, a successful doctor who suffered from...
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| Thomas Gore |
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Thomas Pryor Gore (born Governor Thomas Pryor Gore on December 10, 1870–March 16, 1949) was a Democratic politician. Born in Webster County, Mississippi, he moved to Oklahoma in 1901 and was a United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1907 until 1921...
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| Paraplegia |
Paraplegia is an impairment in motor and/or sensory function of the lower extremities. It is usually the result of spinal cord injury or a congenital condition such as spina bifida which affects the neural elements of the spinal canal. The area of...
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| Francis Maude |
Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude (born 4 July 1953) is a British politician. He is a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, representing the constituency of Horsham. He is currently the Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.
He is the son of the...
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| David Willetts |
David Linsay Willetts (born 9 March 1956) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Havant, in the United Kingdom. He is currently the Shadow Minister for Universities and Skills having previously being the Secretary of State for Innovation,...
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| Vernon Coaker |
Vernon Rodney Coaker (born 17 June 1953) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Gedling since 1997; Coaker is currently the newly-appointed Minister of State for Schools and Learners.
He is the son of Edwin Coaker...
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| Jacqui Smith |
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Jacqueline Jill "Jacqui" Smith (born 3 November 1962) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Redditch since 1997, and notably served as the first ever female Home Secretary, thus making her the third woman to hold...
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