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  • Igo Gruden (131)

    Igo Gruden was a Slovene poet and translator. He was born as Ignacij Gruden in the small...

  • August Heinrich Petermann (202)

    Augustus Heinrich Petermann was a German cartographer.

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    Geoffrey Eli Bodine is an American motorsport driver and bobsled builder. He is the oldest of...

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    Zeki Alasya is a Turkish actor and director. Alasya is of Turkish Cypriot descent and is related...

  • Max Weber (143)

    Max Weber was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in...

  • Ian Fraser (62)

    Ian Fraser is a South African playwright, writer, comedian, anti-Apartheid activist, artist,...

  • Audrey Tang (43)

    Audrey Tang is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten...

  • Jaan Anvelt (140)

    Jaan Anvelt, was a Soviet revolutionary, leader of the Communist Party of Estonia, the first...

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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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