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| x Elias Howe |
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Elias Howe (July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts.
Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory and...
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| x Lenny McLean |
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels |
Leonard McLean (9 April 1949 - 28 July 1998), better known as "The Guv'nor", was a famed East End of London bareknuckle fighter, bouncer, former criminal and prisoner, author, businessman, bodyguard, enforcer, weightlifter, television presenter, and...
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| x Cameron Duncan | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
Cameron Troy Duncan (April 20, 1986 – November 12, 2003) was a writer and director from New Zealand.
Duncan completed many home videos but only two short films, DFK6498 and Strike Zone, a movie involving his love for Softball, as well as a few...
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| x Desmond Llewelyn |
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The World Is Not Enough |
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (12 September 1914 – 19 December 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond film series.
Llewelyn was born in Newport, Wales, the son of Mia and Ivor Llewelyn, who was a coal...
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| x Sergio Leone |
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Clint Eastwood | Don Siegel | Unforgiven |
Sergio Leone (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛːrdʒo lɛˈoːne]; January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.
Leone's film making style includes juxtaposing...
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| x Oliver Reed |
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Gladiator |
Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include The Trap, Oliver!, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The...
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| x Mimi Fariña |
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Richard Fariña | Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me |
Mimi Baez Fariña (born Margarita Mimi Baez, April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was a singer-songwriter, and activist. She was the youngest of three daughters to a British mother, and Mexican physicist Albert Baez. She was sister of folk singer Joan...
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| x Tennessee Williams |
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Truman Capote | Music for Chameleons |
Tennessee Williams (born March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), né Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to ...
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| x Frank O'Connor |
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Ayn Rand | Atlas Shrugged |
Frank O'Connor (September 22, 1897 – November 9, 1979) was an American actor and representationalist painter, most known for his marriage to the novelist Ayn Rand, which lasted from April 15, 1929, until his death in 1979.
O'Connor was born Charles...
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| Ayn Rand | The Fountainhead | ||||
| x Vladimir Lenin |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 12 |
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин) (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ульянов), was the Bolshevik Leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and the first Head of State of the...
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| x Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky | Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 12 |
HSH Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky (German: Karl Alois Johann-Nepomuk Vinzenz, Fürst Lichnowsky, also known as Carl Alois, Fürst von Lichnowsky-Woschütz) (June 21, 1761 – April 15, 1814), was second Prince Lichnowsky and a Chamberlain at the Imperial...
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| Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony No. 2 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Trios Nos. 1 - 3, Opus 1 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 8 | ||||
| x Benjamin Britten |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 14 |
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, violist and pianist.
Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He showed...
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| x Andrey Razumovsky |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet No. 8 |
Count (later Prince) Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (Russian: Андрей Кириллович Разумовский, Rasumovsky; Ukrainian: Андрі́й Кири́лович Розумо́вський, Andriy Kyrylovych Rozumovskyi; November 2, 1752 – September 23, 1836) was a Russian diplomat who...
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| Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet No. 9 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet No. 7 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz | Symphony No. 5 | |||
| x Mieczysław Weinberg |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 10 |
Mieczysław Weinberg (also Moisey Vainberg, Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg; Russian: Моисей Самуилович Вайнберг; Polish: Mieczysław Wajnberg) (December 8, 1919 in Warsaw – February 26, 1996 in Moscow) was an important Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish...
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| x Douglas Adams |
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Richard Dawkins | The God Delusion |
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a ...
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| x Antonio Salieri |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 1 |
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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| Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 2 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 3 | ||||
| x Gabriel Fauré |
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Maurice Ravel | Quartet in F Major |
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. His harmonic and melodic...
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| Maurice Ravel | Jeux d'eau | ||||
| x Antoni Radziwiłł |
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Piano Quartet No. 1 |
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł (13 June 1775 – 7 April 1833) was a Polish-Lithuanian and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nieśwież (modern Nyasvizh, Belarus) and Ołyka (modern Olyka, Ukraine), with...
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| x Theodor Billroth |
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Johannes Brahms | String Quartet No. 1 |
Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (26 April 1829 at Bergen auf Rügen in the Kingdom of Prussia. – 6 February 1894) was a German-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.
As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern...
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| Johannes Brahms | String Quartet No. 2 | ||||
| x Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann |
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Johannes Brahms | String Quartet No. 3 |
Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann (1843 in Leipzig – 1909) was a German botanist, physiologist, microbiologist, university professor, and musician whose 1882 experiment measured the effects of different colors of light on photosynthetic activity and showed...
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| x Ignaz Schuppanzigh |
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Franz Schubert | String Quartet No. 13 |
Ignaz Schuppanzigh November 20, 1776 – March 2, 1830, was a violinist, friend and teacher of Beethoven, and leader of Count Razumovsky's private string quartet. Schuppanzigh and his quartet premiered many of Beethoven's string quartets, and in...
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| x Rodolphe Kreutzer |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 9 |
Rodolphe Kreutzer (November 16, 1766 – January 6, 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.
Kreutzer was born in Versailles, and was initially taught by his father, who was a musician in the royal chapel,...
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| x George Bridgetower | Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 9 |
George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1778 or 1780–February 29, 1860) was an Afro-Polish-born virtuoso violinist, who lived in England for much of his life. He was born in Biała in Poland, where his father worked for Hieronimus Wincenty Radziwill,...
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| x Rudolph of Austria |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 10 |
His Most Illustrious and Reverend Eminence Archduke Rudolph Johannes Joseph Rainier of Austria (January 8, 1788 - July 24, 1831) was an Austria nobleman and churchman.
Born in Pisa, Italy, he was the youngest son of Emperor Leopold II. He was...
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| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 29 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 32 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Trio No. 7 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 5 | ||||
| x Zafar Rushdie | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | |||
| x Sharon Sedaris | David Sedaris | Barrel Fever | |||
| x Miriam Salinger | J.D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | |||
| x Janet G. Travell | Robert Caro | Ina Caro | The Power Broker |
Janet Graeme Travell (Dec. 17, 1901 - Aug. 1, 1997) was an American physician.
She developed and popularized the diagnosis and treatment of myofascial pain syndrome secondary to trigger points.
She was also appointed the personal physician to...
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| x Ina Caro | Robert Caro | Janet G. Travell | The Power Broker | ||
| x Ann Friedman | Thomas L. Friedman | The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization | |||
| x Mily Balakirev |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Manfred Symphony |
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев, Milij Alekseevič Balakirev, [bɐ'lakʲɪrʲɪf]) (2 January 1837 [O.S. 21 December 1836] – 29 May [O.S. 16 May] 1910) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. He is known today...
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| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Fatum | ||||
| x United States Foreign Service |
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Henry Kissinger | Diplomacy |
The United States Foreign Service is the primary personnel system within the Diplomatic Service of the United States government, under the aegis of the Department of State. The personnel system was first created under the Foreign Service Act to...
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| x Coleman Harwell | David Halberstam | The Children | |||
| x Kelly Miller Smith | David Halberstam | The Children | |||
| x Jennings Perry | David Halberstam | The Children | |||
| x Domenick Cleri | Mario Puzo | The Last Don | |||
| x Virginia Altman | Mario Puzo | The Last Don | |||
| x Francis Godolphin | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | |||
| x Israel Shahak | Edward Said | Pease and Its Discontents |
Israel Shahak (Hebrew: ישראל שחק) (born Himmelstaub April 28, 1933–July 2, 2001), was a Polish-born Israeli chemist, a professor of chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, known especially as a radical political thinker and author and activist...
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| x Ida Millsap | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | |||
| x Louis Bouilhet | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1822 – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist.
He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Miloenis (1851), a narrative poem in five...
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| x Théâtre de l’Équipe | Albert Camus | Caligula | |||
| x Dryasdust | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe |
Dryasdust was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels; thereafter, a derisory term for anyone who presents historical facts with no feeling for the...
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| x Helene Knoff | Günter Grass | The Flounder | |||
| x William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre |
William Makepeace Thackeray (pronounced /ˈθækəri/; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Thackeray, an...
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| x Nelson Algren |
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Simone de Beauvoir | The Mandarins |
Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer.
Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant...
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| x Olga Kosakiewicz | Simone de Beauvoir | She Came to Stay |
Olga Kosakiewicz was a student of Simone de Beauvoir who infamously joined the circle of de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in the autumn of 1935 when she was only 18. She and her sister, Wanda Kosakiewicz, are fused together to make one central...
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| x Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Simone de Beauvoir | All Men are Mortal |
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (French pronunciation: [saʁtʁ], English: /ˈsɑrt/; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was...
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| x Théophile Gautier |
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Charles Baudelaire | Les Fleurs du mal |
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic.
While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of...
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| x Marion Wiesel | Elie Wiesel | Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea | |||
| x Carl Czerny |
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Franz Liszt | Transcendental Etudes |
Carl Czerny (sometimes Karl; February 21, 1791 – July 15, 1857) was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny knew and was influenced by the well-known pianists Muzio...
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| x Che Guevara |
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Hans Werner Henze | Das Floss der Medusa |
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban...
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| x Frédéric Chopin |
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Robert Schumann | Kreisleriana |
Frédéric François Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes Szopen; surname pronounced /ˈʃoʊpæn/ in English; French pronunciation: [ʃɔpɛ̃]; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the...
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| x Gidon Kremer |
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Sofia Gubaidulina | Offertorium |
Gidon Kremer (Latvian: Gidons Krēmers) (born February 27, 1947) is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.
Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish (his father being a Holocaust survivor) and...
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| x Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz | Ludwig van Beethoven | Andrey Razumovsky | Symphony No. 5 | ||
| x Richard Wagner |
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Anton Bruckner | Symphony No. 3 |
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (pronounced /ˈvɑːɡnər/ or /ˈwæɡnər/, German pronunciation: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas",...
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| x Count Moritz von Fries | Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony No. 7 | |||
| x Robert Schumann |
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Frédéric Chopin | Ballade in F major |
Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous and important Romantic composers of the 19th century.
He had hoped...
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| x Ludwig II of Bavaria |
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Anton Bruckner | Symphony No. 7 |
Ludwig II (Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm; sometimes rendered as Louis II in English) (25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886) was king of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. He is sometimes referred to as the Swan King in English and der...
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| x Nina Vassilyevna Varzar | Dmitri Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 7 | |||
