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  • Scott McInnis (71)

    Stephen Scott Emory McInnis is an American politician and lawyer who was a Republican member of...

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    Pehr Osbeck was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He was born in...

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    António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Count and 1st Marquess of Tomar was a Portuguese 19th...

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    Alan Bennett is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. He was born in Leeds and...

  • Bebe (46)

    Bebe is a Spanish singer, songwriter, and actress who rose to international fame with the...

  • Charles Simic (86)

    Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet and was co-poetry editor of the Paris Review...

  • John Brown (224)

    John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to...

  • Johnny Paul Koroma (64)

    Major Johnny Paul Koroma was the Head of State of Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998.

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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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