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The "person or being in fiction" type allows people, deities, and other
beings that are not actually fictional to be modeled as characters in
fictional works that treat them in a fictional manner or that include
characters clearly based on real people.
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| x Adam Worth |
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Professor Moriarty |
Adam Worth (1844–January 8, 1902) was a German-American criminal. Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson nicknamed him "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime". It has been widely speculated...
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| x David Gerrold | David Gerrold |
David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman on 24 January 1944, in Chicago, Illinois, is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series...
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| x Nikola Tesla |
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Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many...
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| x Dee Dee Myers |
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C. J. Cregg |
Dee Dee Myers (born Margaret Jane Myers on September 1, 1961 in Quonset Point, Rhode Island) served as White House Press Secretary for the first two years of the Clinton administration, from January 20, 1993 to December 22, 1994.
Myers holds the...
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| x Horatio Hornblower |
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James T. Kirk |
Horatio Hornblower is the fictional protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester, and later the subject of films and television programs.
The original Hornblower tales began with the appearance of a junior Royal Navy Captain on independent...
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| x Hamlet (legend) |
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Prince Hamlet |
Hamlet is a striking figure in Scandinavian romance and the hero of Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his...
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| x Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald |
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Horatio Hornblower |
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess do Maranhão, GCB, ODM (Chile) (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a senior British naval flag officer and radical politician. He was a daring...
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| x James Alexander Gordon |
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Horatio Hornblower |
Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, KCB, RN (6 October 1782 – 8 January 1869) was a distinguished British officer in the Royal Navy. His 75 years in the service, from Midshipman to Admiral of the Fleet was unprecedented in its duration....
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| x Frank DeSimone |
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Tom Hagen |
Frank A. DeSimone (1909 – August 4, 1967) was the Boss of the Los Angeles crime family from 1956 to 1967. DeSimone, who was born and died in Los Angeles, California, was the son of former don Rosario DeSimone. He was sometime refered to as "One Eye"...
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| x Jack Kerouac |
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Sal Paradise |
Jack Kerouac (pronounced /ˈkɛruːæk, ˈkɛrəwæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American author, poet and painter. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Kerouac's work was very...
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| x Neal Cassady |
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Dean Moriarty |
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road...
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| x Mary Carney | Maggie Cassidy | ||
| x William S. Burroughs |
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Frank Carmody |
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997; pronounced /ˈbʌroʊz/) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his...
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| x Gérard Kerouac | Gerard Duluoz | ||
| x Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque | Ange Duluoz | ||
| x Jerry Holkins |
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Tycho |
Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins (born February 6, 1976), is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade. Holkins goes by the pseudonym "Tycho Brahe". This is also the name of one of the two main characters of Penny Arcade, who is a cartoonized self...
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| x Theodore Sturgeon |
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Kilgore Trout |
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo; 26 February 1918 — 8 May 1985) was an American science fiction author.
He was known to use a technique known as "rhythmic prose", in which his prose text would drop into a standard poetic meter. This...
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| x Steve Rubell |
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Steve Rubell |
Steve Rubell (December 2, 1943 - July 25, 1989) was an American entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York disco Studio 54.
Rubell and his brother Don spent their childhoods with their parents in Brooklyn, New York. His father worked for the U.S....
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| x Bernard Sumner |
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Bernard Sumner |
Bernard Sumner (born 4 January 1956) is a British singer, guitarist and keyboardist. He is best known as a founding member of two highly influential bands, Joy Division and New Order.
Sumner was a founding member of Joy Division, a post-punk band...
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| x Tony Wilson |
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Tony Wilson |
Anthony Howard Wilson, commonly known as Tony Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007), was an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC.
Wilson was...
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| x John Forbes Nash |
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John Nash |
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems...
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| x Dan Marino |
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Dan Marino |
Daniel Constantine (Dan) Marino, Jr. (born September 15, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. The last quarterback of the Quarterback Class of...
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| x Alexander Nevsky |
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Alexander Nevsky |
Saint Alexander Nevsky listen (help·info) (Алекса́ндр Яросла́вич Не́вский in Russian; transliteration: Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskij) (30 May 1220 – 14 November 1263) was the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir during some of the most trying...
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| x Howard Cosell |
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Howard Cosell |
Howard William Cosell (born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 - April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist.
Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Nellie and Isidore Cohen, who was an accountant. He was raised in Brooklyn, New...
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| x Muhammad Ali |
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Muhammad Ali |
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers of all time. As an amateur, he won a...
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| x Antonio Salieri |
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Antonio Salieri |
Antonio Salieri (18 August 1750 – 7 May 1825) was an Italian composer and conductor from the Republic of Venice. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time. His music...
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| x Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed...
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| x Fred Haise |
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Fred Haise |
Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Heis') (born November 14, 1933) is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.
Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He attended Biloxi High School and...
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| x Gene Kranz |
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Gene Kranz |
Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz served as a Flight Director, the successor to NASA founding Flight Director Chris Kraft, during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and is best known...
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| x Jack Swigert |
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Jack Swigert |
John Leonard 'Jack' Swigert, Jr., (August 30, 1931 - December 27, 1982) was a NASA astronaut, one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.
Before joining NASA, Swigert was a test pilot. After leaving NASA, he was elected to the US Congress, but...
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| x Jim Lovell |
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Jim Lovell |
James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered an explosion en route to the Moon but was brought...
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| x Ken Mattingly |
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Ken Mattingly |
Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II, (born March 17, 1936) is a retired American astronaut and rear admiral in the United States Navy who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C missions. He had been scheduled to fly on Apollo 13, but was held back...
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| x Charles Starkweather |
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Charles Starkweather |
Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming during a road trip with his teenaged girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate.
Starkweather was born in Lincoln,...
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| x Bruno Bischofberger |
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Bruno Bischofberger |
Bruno Bischofberger (born 1940) is an art dealer and gallerist from Zurich, Switzerland.
In 1963 Bischofberger opened his first gallery in Zurich. In 1965 he held an exhibition of American pop artists including: Andy Warhol,Roy Lichtenstein, Robert...
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| x Jean-Michel Basquiat |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat |
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist and the first African-American painter to become an international art star. He gained popularity first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a successful...
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| x Reinaldo Arenas | Reinaldo Arenas |
Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.
Arenas was born in the countryside...
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| x Ron Kovic |
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Ron Kovic |
Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an anti-war activist, veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July, which was made into an Academy Award–winning movie...
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| x Brandon Teena |
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Brandon Teena |
Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 - December 31, 1993 in Lincoln, Nebraska) was a trans man who was raped and murdered. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, which was based on the documentary film...
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| x Holly Golightly | Holly Golightly |
Holly Golightly is a British singer-songwriter.
She is a former member of the all-girl garage band Thee Headcoatees, the female incarnation of the Billy Childish group Thee Headcoats. For her solo career, she draws from rhythm and blues, rockabilly,...
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| x Bugsy Siegel |
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Bugsy Siegel |
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American gangster who was involved with the Jewish Mafia, and a major driving force behind large-scale development of Las Vegas.
Benjamin Siegel was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,...
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| x Lawrence "Crash" Davis | Crash Davis |
Lawrence Columbus "Crash" Davis (July 14, 1919 - August 31, 2001) was an American professional baseball player whose name inspired that of the main character of the 1988 movie Bull Durham. Born in Canon, Georgia, and raised in Gastonia, North...
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| x Truman Capote |
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Truman Capote |
Truman Garcia Capote (pronounced /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti/; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984), born Truman Streckfus Persons, was an American writer, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics,...
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| x Frank Abagnale |
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Frank Abagnale |
Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is an American security consultant best known for his history as a former confidence trickster, check forger, skilled impostor and escape artist. He became notorious in the 1960s for successfully...
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| x Frank Abagnale, Sr. | Frank Abagnale, Sr. |
Frank William Abagnale, Sr. (1917-1974) is the father of Frank William Abagnale, Jr., the author of Catch Me If You Can.
According to Abagnale Jr's book, his father met his mother, Paulette, in Montpellier, France following the last months of...
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| x Loretta Lynn |
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Loretta Lynn |
Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1935) is an American country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and is revered as a country music cultural icon.
Lynn ruled the charts...
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| x Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Napoleon Bonaparte |
Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) later known as Napoleon I, and previously Napoleone di Buonaparte, was a military and political leader of France whose actions...
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| x Cyrano de Bergerac |
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Cyrano de Bergerac |
Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story. In these fictional works he is featured...
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| x Elizabeth I of England |
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Queen Elizabeth I |
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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| x Erin Brockovich |
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Erin Brockovich |
Erin Brockovich-Ellis (born June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E;) of...
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| x God | God |
God is a deity in theistic and deistic religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism.
God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the universe....
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| x Andy Warhol |
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Andy Warhol |
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a...
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| x Frida Kahlo |
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Frida Kahlo |
Frida Kahlo (born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including...
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| x Fanny Brice |
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Fanny Brice |
Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio...
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| x Mahatma Gandhi |
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Mahatma 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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| x Kalpana | Kalpana |
Kalpana is a Sanskrit word that means "Creativity" and "imagination" in Hindi and Nepali. It is also a popular female Hindu name. It may refer to:
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| x Cicero |
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Cicero |
Marcus Tullius Cicero (pronounced /ˈsɪsɨroʊ/; Classical Latin: [ˈkikeroː]; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's...
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| x Commodus |
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Commodus |
Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (31 August 161 – 31 December 192) was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 (also with his father, Marcus Aurelius, from 177 until 180). The name given here was his official name at his accession to sole rule;...
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| x Lucilla |
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Lucilla |
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150-182) was the second daughter and third child of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger and an elder sister to future Roman Emperor Commodus.
Lucilla was the...
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| x Marcus Aurelius |
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Marcus Aurelius |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Lucius' death in 169. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also...
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| x Adolph Rupp |
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Adolph Rupp |
Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901–December 10, 1977) was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp ranks third (behind Bob Knight and Dean Smith), in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I...
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