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  • Lieven Scheire (43)

    Lieven Scheire is a Belgian comedian, mainly known for being a member of Neveneffecten.

  • Princess Élisabeth of France (260)

    Élisabeth of France (3 May 1764 – 10 May 1794), known as Madame Élisabeth, was a French princess...

  • Jean Margaret Davenport (195)

    Jean Margaret Davenport was an English actress. Her father was a lawyer, but he left the Bar for...

  • Mary Astor (118)

    Mary Astor was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The...

  • Rufus P. Spalding (226)

    Rufus Paine Spalding was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and judge from Ohio.

  • Nona Gaprindashvili (83)

    Nona Terentievna Gaprindashvili is a Georgian chess player, the sixth women's world chess...

  • Vagn Walfrid Ekman (150)

    Vagn Walfrid Ekman was a Swedish oceanographer. Born in Stockholm to Fredrik Laurentz Ekman,...

  • Butch Otter (82)

    Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter is the 32nd and current Governor of Idaho since January 2007 and is...

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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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