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  • Florence Nightingale (204)

    Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was a celebrated British social reformer and statistician, and the...

  • Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra (386)

    Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra was a Spanish painter, born at Granada. He was a scholar of Alonso...

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    George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, actor,...

  • Rudolf Kaltenbach (182)

    Rudolf Kaltenbach was a German gynecologist who was a native of Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1865 he...

  • Aquileo Parra (199)

    José Bonifacio Aquileo Elias Parra Gómez was a Colombian soldier, businessman and political...

  • Gene Krapp (137)

    Eugene Hamlet Krapp was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1911 to 1915. He played for the...

  • Svetlana Vysokova (52)

    Svetlana Yuryevna Vysokova is a Russian speed skater, who won a bronze medal in the Women's Team...

  • K. G. Balakrishnan (79)

    Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan is presently the Chairperson of the National Human Rights...

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  • steele_n
    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 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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