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  • Niwa Nagakuni (190)

    Viscount Niwa Nagakuni; was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period who ruled Nihonmatsu han...

  • Cha Bum-Kun (71)

    Cha Bum-Kun is a South Korean football manager and former player, nicknamed Tscha Bum in Germany...

  • Augusto Pestana (156)

    Augusto Pestana was a Brazilian engineer and politician. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Pestana moved...

  • Maurice J. Tobin (123)

    Maurice Joseph Tobin was a Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, the 56th Governor of the U.S. state...

  • V. K. Samaranayake (85)

    Vidya Jyothi V. K. Samaranayake, MBCS, MCS, FNASSL, MIEEE pioneered computing & IT development...

  • Hubert Robert (291)

    Hubert Robert, was a French painter, noted for his landscape paintings and picturesque...

  • Etana (41)

    Shauna McKenzie, known commonly as Etana, is a reggae singer from Jamaica. Her debut album The...

  • Thekla Resvoll (153)

    Thekla Susanne Ragnhild Resvoll was a Norwegian botanist – a female pioneer in Norwegian natural...

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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 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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