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  • Big Joe Turner (113)

    Big Joe Turner was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri, United States...

  • S. H. Hays (160)

    Samuel Hubbard Hays served as mayor of Boise, Idaho, from 1916 to 1919. Hays became Boise mayor...

  • Yannick Bonheur (42)

    Yannick Bonheur is a French pair skater. He is a five-time French National Champion with three...

  • Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley (95)

    Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL, was a British politician, author,...

  • Kai Winding (102)

    Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is well...

  • Babe Adams (142)

    Charles Benjamin "Babe" Adams was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from...

  • Konrad Martin (212)

    Konrad Martin was a Catholic Bishop of Paderborn.

  • Kris Peeters (62)

    Kris Peeters is a Flemish politician and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party...

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    I was not able to find anything on the famous artist Do Ho Suh
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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 136 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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