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| x Charles Lyell |
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Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt, FRS (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a British lawyer, geologist, and proponent of uniformitarianism. He was the foremost geologist of his day, and an influence on the young Charles Darwin.
Charles Lyell...
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| x Vince McMahon |
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Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon (born August 24, 1945) is an American promoter, professional wrestler, in-ring announcer, play-by-play commentator and film producer. McMahon currently serves as the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of...
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| x Jay Adelson |
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Jay Adelson is the CEO of Digg.com, a website that uses user ratings and interest to rank information and news stories. Adelson was previously founder and CTO of Equinix, which provides network-neutral data centers (IBX or "...
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| x "Legs" Larry Smith |
"Legs" Larry Smith (born 18 January 1944, Oxford) is the former drummer of the comedy satirical rock group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
He was originally invited to join by Vivian Stanshall as a tuba player and tap dancer. As the drummer he was a...
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Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) and The Massacre (2005). Both albums achieved multi-platinum...
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| x A Martinez |
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Adolfo Martinez (born September 27, 1948) is an Emmy Award winning American actor and singer with prominent roles in the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara and the primetime dramas L.A. Law and Profiler.
Martinez was born Adolfo Larrue Martinez, III...
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| x A. A. Milne |
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Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright,...
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| x A. B. Krongard |
Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard (more commonly "A. B.") was the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was appointed by George Tenet on March 16, 2001.
The Executive Director is the third ranking position within the CIA and the...
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| x A. Bruce Bielaski |
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Alexander Bruce Bielaski (April 2, 1883 – February 19, 1964) was an American lawyer and director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
Bielaski was born in Montgomery County, Maryland to the son of a Methodist...
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| x A. E. van Vogt |
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Alfred Elton Van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the "Golden Age" of the genre.
Born on...
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| x A. E. W. Mason |
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Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich, London - 22 November 1948 London) was a British author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers.
He studied at Dulwich College and graduated from Trinity College,...
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| x A. Elizabeth Jones |
A. Elizabeth Jones (born 1948 in Munich, Germany) served as the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan, from 1995 to 1997. She served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia in 2003.
Jones was born in Munich to parents in the U.S....
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| x A. J. Foyt |
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Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr., or as he is universally known as in motorsports circles, A. J. Foyt (born January 16, 1935, in Houston, Texas), is a retired American automobile racing driver. He raced in numerous genres of motorsports. His open wheel...
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| x A. J. Liebling |
Abbott Joseph Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death.
Liebling was born into a well-off family in Manhattan's Upper East Side, where his...
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| x A. L. Barker |
Audrey Lilian Barker (April 13, 1918 – February 21, 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham. During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven...
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| x A. N. Wilson |
Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950), is an English writer, known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. He is also a columnist for the London Evening Standard and was an occasional contributor to the...
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| x A. P. Hill |
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Ambrose Powell Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander of "Hill's Light Division," becoming one of Stonewall Jackson's ablest subordinates. He later...
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| x A. S. Byatt |
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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE (Born Antonia Susan Drabble 24 August 1936, Sheffield, England) is an English novelist and poet. She is daughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble, QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloor, and married to Peter Duffy. She is...
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| x A. Victor Donahey |
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Alvin Victor Donahey (also known as A. Victor Donahey, A. Vic Donahey, Vic Donahey, A. V. Donahey, or Honest Vic Donahey) (July 7, 1873 - April 8, 1946) was a Democratic Party politician from Ohio. Donahey was the 50th Governor of Ohio and a United...
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| x A. Whitney Brown |
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Alan Whitney Brown (born July 8, 1952) is an Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian probably best known for his recurring appearances on Saturday Night Live in the 1980s in a Weekend Update segment called "The Big Picture". He was one of the...
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| x Aaliyah |
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Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (pronounced /əˈliːə/), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan....
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| x Aaron Ashmore |
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Aaron Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979) is a Canadian film and television actor, best known as Jimmy Olsen in Smallville. He is easily confused with his twin brother Shawn Ashmore.
Aaron Ashmore was best known for playing Marc Hall in the 2004...
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| x Aaron Burr |
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Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, Revolutionary War participant, and adventurer. He served as the third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805), under Thomas Jefferson.
A formative member of...
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| x Aaron Carter |
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Aaron Charles Carter (born December 7, 1987) is an American singer. He is the younger brother of singer Nick Carter, from the boy band Backstreet Boys. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late-1990s, establishing himself as a star...
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| x Aaron Ciechanover |
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Aaron Ciechanover (אהרן צ'חנובר) (born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
Born in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine, Ciechanover received his Master of Science degree in 1971 and his M.D. in 1974 from the...
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| x Aaron Cometbus |
Aaron Elliott (born 1968), better known as Aaron Cometbus, is an American drummer, lyricist, self-described "punk anthropologist" and author of punk rock zine Cometbus.
Born in Berkeley, California, Cometbus started writing fanzines in 1981 with...
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| x Aaron Copland |
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Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of...
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| x Aaron Eckhart |
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Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American film and stage actor. Born in California, he moved to England at 13 when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career performing in school plays. Eckhart...
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| x Aaron Klug |
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Sir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS (born 11 August 1926) is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of...
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| x Aaron Kwok |
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Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing (born October 26, 1965) is a Hong Kong singer and film actor from the 1990s to the present. The media refer to him, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王). Kwok's onstage dancing and...
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| x Aaron McGruder |
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Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974) is an American cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African American brothers from inner-city Chicago now living with their...
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| x Aaron Montgomery Ward |
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Aaron Montgomery Ward (February 17, 1844 - December 7, 1913) was an American businessman notable for the invention of mail order.
The mail-order industry was started by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872 in Chicago. Ward, a young traveling salesman of...
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| x Aaron Neville |
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Aaron Neville (born January 24, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American soul and R&B; singer. He made his debut in 1966 with the hit single "Tell It Like It Is", a Number One hit on the Billboard R&B; charts. Neville did not chart again,...
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| x Aaron Russo |
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Aaron Russo (February 14, 1943 - August 24, 2007) was an entertainment businessman, filmmaker, libertarian political activist, and 9/11 conspiracy theorist. He was best-known for producing Trading Places, Wise Guys, and The Rose. Later in life he...
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| x Aaron Sorkin |
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night and The Farnsworth Invention.
After graduating from Syracuse...
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| x Aaron Spelling |
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Aaron Spelling (April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006) was an American film and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's company holds the record as the most prolific television writer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits.
Spelling was born...
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| x Aaron Stanford |
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Aaron Stanford (born December 27, 1976) is an American actor, best known for his role as Pyro in the X-Men film series and Doug Bukowski in the 2006 The Hills Have Eyes remake.
Stanford was born in Westford, Massachusetts, the son of Judith, an...
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| x Aart J. de Geus |
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Dr. Aart J. De Geus co-founded Synopsys in 1986. Dr. Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis
enterprise to a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA). As
a technology visionary, he is frequently asked to speak on...
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| x Aasif Mandvi |
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Aasif Mandviwala (born March 5, 1966), also known as Aasif Mandvi, is an Indian-born, British-raised, American actor and comedian. He began appearing as an occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9, 2006. On March 12, 2007,...
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| x Abbie Cornish |
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Abbie Cornish (born 7 August 1982) is an AFI Award-winning Australian actress. She is well known in Australia for a number of film and television roles, including Penne in the comedy/lifestyle parody Life Support, and her award-winning lead...
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| x Abbie Hoffman |
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Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Later he became a fugitive from the law, living under an alias and...
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| x Abby Dalton |
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Abby Dalton (born August 15, 1935) is an American actress. Born as Marlene Wasden in Las Vegas, Nevada, she has made numerous appearances on television, including the recurring role of "Julia Cumson" on Falcon Crest.
Dalton's character was fist...
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| x Abby Mann |
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Abby Mann (December 1, 1927 – March 25, 2008) was an American film writer and producer.
Born as Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia, he grew up in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was best known for his work on controversial subjects and social drama....
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| x Abdelaziz Bouteflika |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (French pronunciation: [abdəlaziz butəflika]; Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة) (born March 2, 1937) has been the President of Algeria since 1999.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was born on March 2, 1937 in Oujda, French Morocco. He was the...
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| x Abdou Diouf |
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Abdou Diouf (Wolof: Abdu Juuf) (born September 7, 1935) was the second President of Senegal, serving from 1981 to 2000. Diouf is notable both for coming to power by peaceful succession, and leaving willingly after losing the 2000 presidential...
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| x Abdoulaye Wade |
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Abdoulaye Wade (born May 29, 1926) is the third and current President of Senegal, in office since 2000. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and has led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time...
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| x Abdul Qadeer Khan |
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Dr. prof. Abdul Qadeer Khan or A. Q. Khan- Hilal-i-Imtiaz (HI), Nishan-i-Imtiaz (NI) (twice), (Urdu: عبدالقدیر خان; born April 27, 1936 in Bhopal, British India) is a Pakistani nuclear scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the...
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| x Abdullah Öcalan |
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Abdullah "Apo" Öcalan (born April 4, 1948) is a Kurdish militant leader, who in 1978 founded the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by a number of states and organizations, and has been leading an armed...
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| x Abdurrahman Wahid |
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Abdurrahman ad-Dakhil Wahid (born 7 September 1940), colloquially known as Gus Dur (help·info), is an Indonesian Muslim religious and political leader who served as the President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. The long-time president of the...
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| x Abe Fortas |
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Abraham Fortas (June 19, 1910–April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. He served in that role from October 4, 1965 until May 14, 1969, when he resigned under pressure.
Fortas was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the youngest of...
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| x Abe Reles |
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Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1906 – 12 November, 1941) was a New York mobster who was widely considered the most feared hit man for Murder, Inc., the enforcement contractor for the National Crime Syndicate. Reles later turned government witness and sent...
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| x Abe Rosenthal |
Abraham W. "Abe" Rosenthal (12 October 1921 – February 1986) was an English professional footballer who made over 200 league appearances for three clubs.
Born in Liverpool, Rosenthal was a youth player at hometown club Liverpool before turning...
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| x Abe Vigoda |
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Abraham Charles "Abe" Vigoda (born February 24, 1921) is an American movie and television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on the sitcom television series Barney Miller from 1975-1977, for his portrayal of Sal...
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| x Abel Ferrara |
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Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951 in The Bronx) is an American movie screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer (1979), Ms. 45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992),...
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| x Abel Gance |
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Abel Gance (25 October 1889 - 10 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse, La Roue, and the monumental Napoléon.
Born in Paris in 1889, Abel Gance was the...
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| x Abel P. Upshur |
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Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, judge and politician from Virginia. Upshur was active in Virginia state politics and later served as Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State during the Whig...
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| x Abel Pacheco |
Abel Pacheco de la Espriella (born 22 December 1933, in San José) was president of Costa Rica between 2002 and 2006, representing the Social Christian Unity Party (Partido Unidad Social Cristiana – PUSC). He ran on a platform to continue free market...
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| x Abhishek Bachchan |
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Abhishek Bachchan (Hindi: अभिषेक बच्चन, born February 5, 1976 in Mumbai, Maharashtra) is an Indian actor and the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. He is married to actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai.
Bachchan debuted...
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| x Abigail Adams |
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Abigail Adams (née Smith) (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth. She was the first Second Lady of the United States.
Adams...
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| x Abigail Breslin |
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Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American teen actress. The fourth youngest actress ever to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award, Breslin is best known for portraying Bo Hess in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, Olive Hoover in...
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