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  • Speedy Claxton (46)

    Craig "Speedy" Claxton is a former professional basketball player. In 2013, he was named as a...

  • Yahya Al-Shehri (33)

    Yahya Sulaiman Al-Shehri is a Saudi Arabian football player. He currently plays in winger in the...

  • Shannon Powell (62)

    ”The King of Treme” Shannon Powell is an American jazz and New Orleans jazz virtuoso drummer. He...

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    Beilby Porteus, successively Bishop of Chester and of London was a Church of England reformer...

  • Keiji Inafune (59)

    Keiji Inafune is a video game producer and illustrator. He was the former head of Research &...

  • Lord Frederick Beauclerk (251)

    Lord Frederick Beauclerk was an outstanding but controversial English first-class cricketer for...

  • Wong Shun Leung (89)

    Wong Shun Leung was a Chinese martial artist from Hong Kong who studied wing chun kung fu under...

  • Augusta Jane Evans (189)

    Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson, was an American Southern author and one of the...

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    I was not able to find anything on the famous artist Do Ho Suh
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  • 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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