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  • Dirk ter Haar (105)

    Dirk ter Haar was an Anglo-Dutch physicist. Dirk ter Haar studied physics at Leiden University,...

  • Dudley Moore (89)

    Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. Moore first...

  • Maniyanpilla Raju (67)

    Maniyanpilla Raju is a Malayalam film actor and producer. Though his real name is Sudheer Kumar,...

  • Emily Taft Douglas (125)

    Emily Taft Douglas was a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Illinois. She served...

  • Vasily Golovnin (248)

    Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1776, Gulyniki, Ryazan Oblast, Russia 11...

  • C. J. Harris (168)

    Colonel Johnson Harris was born April 19, 1856. His father was White and his mother was...

  • Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork (195)

    Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork KP, PC, styled Viscount Dungarvan between...

  • Ox Baker (90)

    Douglas A. Baker better known professionally as Ox Baker, is an American professional wrestler...

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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?
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    • 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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