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  • Primo Cassarino (68)

    Primo Cassarino is a New York mobster who became an enforcer for Gambino crime family, and...

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    Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most...

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    Pedro Medrano was a Uruguayan-born Argentine statesman and lawyer. He was a representative to...

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    Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev is the former Deputy Prime Minister and the current Prime Minister of...

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    Klára Issová, sometimes known as Klára Issa, is a Czech film, stage and television actress. She...

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    Patrick "Paddy" Hannan was a gold prospector whose discovery on 17 June 1893 near Kalgoorlie,...

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    Ariane Moffatt is a Québécoise singer-songwriter. Known for working across multiple musical...

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    Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in...

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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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