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  • Li Chengjiang (45)

    Li Chengjiang is a Chinese figure skater. He has won several national titles and several medals...

  • Lloyd Kahn (89)

    Lloyd Kahn is the founding editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, Inc., and is the former...

  • Yi Sun-sin (479)

    Yi Sun-shin was a Korean naval commander, famed for his victories against the Japanese navy...

  • Lajos Keresztes (124)

    Lajos Keresztes was a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

  • Ole Peter Petersen (202)

    Ole Peter Petersen is credited as the founder of Methodism in Norway and co-founder of Norwegian...

  • Reg Butler (111)

    Reginald Cotterell Butler was an English sculptor. Butler studied and lectured at the...

  • Karl Kraus (150)

    Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist,...

  • Don Dufek (70)

    Donald Patrick "Don" Dufek, Jr. is a former American football player who played safety and...

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    steele_n
    I was not able to find anything on the famous artist Do Ho Suh
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  • courtneye
    courtneye
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  • Kathleen Castillo
    Kathleen Castillo
    Is there a way to search by last name only?
    LikeReply 146 years ago
    • STANDS4
      STANDS4
      Hey Kathleen -- great idea! We've just added the option to also search by last name...
      LikeReply 135 years ago
  • Olynthia Hamilton
    Olynthia Hamilton
    I was not able to find anything on the famous artist Do Ho Suh
    LikeReply 87 years ago
  • Ibrahim Mahmoud
    Ibrahim Mahmoud
    Luciano Vssalo was an Ethiopian Foot Ball Player / Captain / Coach of the Ethiopian National Team. In 1962 the National Team has won the 3rd African Cup against Egypt. Ethiopia 4 - 2 Egypt .
    LikeReply 88 years ago

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