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  • C. Daniel Mote, Jr. (86)

    Clayton Daniel Mote, Jr., Ph.D. is the current President of the National Academy of Engineering...

  • August Palm (174)

    August Teodor Palm was a Swedish socialist activist and a key person in introducing the social...

  • Piotr Janowski (72)

    Piotr Janowski was a Polish violinist, first Polish winner of the Henryk Wieniawski Violin...

  • Edmund Keeley (95)

    Edmund Leroy "Mike" Keeley is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor...

  • Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami (41)

    Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami was an Iranian professional basketball player. He was a member of the...

  • Countess Palatine Anne Christine of Sulzbach (319)

    Anne Christine of Sulzbach, also called Anne of the Palatinate, was a princess of the Bavarian...

  • H. R. Giger (83)

    Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer. He was part...

  • Deborah Coddington (70)

    Deborah Coddington is a New Zealand journalist and former ACT New Zealand politician.

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  • Kathleen Castillo
    Kathleen Castillo
    Is there a way to search by last name only?
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    • STANDS4
      STANDS4
      Hey Kathleen -- great idea! We've just added the option to also search by last name...
      LikeReplyReport 134 years ago
  • Olynthia Hamilton
    Olynthia Hamilton
    I was not able to find anything on the famous artist Do Ho Suh
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  • 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 .
    LikeReplyReport 87 years ago

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