Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton Court, MP, KG (c. 1513, Coughton Court, Coughton, Warwickshire - 12 February 1581, Coughton Court, Coughton, Warwickshire) was a distinguished English Tudor courtier...

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) Beatrice Venetia Stanley Montagu (22 August 1887 – 3 August 1948) was a British aristocrat and socialite best known for the many letters that Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith wrote to her betwe...

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Uriah Milton Rose (March 5, 1834 – August 12, 1913) was an influential Arkansas lawyer. Born in Bradfordsville, Kentucky, on March 5, 1834, Rose was studying Latin at age 5 and received an excellen...

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Lord Francis William Bouverie Douglas (8 February 1847 – 14 July 1865) was a novice, British mountaineer. After sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn, he died in a fall on the way down from t...

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Birth: Oct. 28, 1875 Death: Feb. 4, 1966 Journalist. He was the first full time editor of "National Geographic Magazine", serving in that capacity from 1899 to 1954, and was President of the Nation...

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A lecture by Diocletian Lewis in 1873 inspired Eliza Thompson (Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson; 1816-1905), daughter of Governor Allen Trimble, to begin leading groups of women into saloons where they sa...

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Mini Biography Acclaimed and highly discussed filmmaker Neil LaBute has made himself a force to be reckoned with and a name to watch. With his true-to-life cynical and self-absorbed characters and al...

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Wikipedia Biographical Summary: "...Howard William Hunter (November 14, 1907 – March 3, 1995) was the fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1994 to...

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Ima Hogg (July 10, 1882 – August 19, 1975), known as "The First Lady of Texas", was an American philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts, and one of the most respected women in Texas during t...

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William Grant Bangerter (June 8, 1918 – April 18, 2010) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1975 until his death. In 1989, he was given gene...

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Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (21 April [O.S. 9 April] 1889 or 1890 – February 22, 1985) was one of the world's most prominent concert violinists, as well as a composer, teacher, conductor and a long-time dir...

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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel , né Bönickhausen1 le 15 décembre 1832 à Dijon et mort le 27 décembre 1923 à Paris, est un ingénieur, un industriel français ayant notamment participé à la construction de la s...

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James McGill Buchanan, Jr. (/bjuːˈkænɨn/; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory, for which in 1986 he received the Nobel Memorial Pri...

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Victor Basch , né le 18 août 1863 à Budapest, aujourd'hui en Hongrie, et mort assassiné avec sa femme par la milice française, le 10 janvier 1944 à Neyron dans l'Ain, est un philosophe, universitaire f...

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René Samuel Cassin (né le 5 octobre 1887 à Bayonne, mort le 20 février 1976 à Paris), était un juriste, diplomate et homme politique français. Membre du gouvernement de la France libre pendant la secon...

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Sir Thomas Slade (1703/4–1771) was an English naval architect, most famous for designing HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Career outline Like many who r...

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Miguel Primo de Rivera on Wikipedia Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja (Jerez de la Frontera, 8 de enero de 1870 – París, 16 de marzo de 1930) fue un militar, político y dictador español. Fue segundo ...

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1st President for life of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, In office 14 January 1953 – 4 May 1980 1st Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement, In office 1 September 1961 – 5 Octobe...

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Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic from July 1934 to March 1938 After the invasion he was arrested by the Germans, kept in solitary confinement and eventually interned in various concentration...

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Francisco Franco y Bahamonde (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko]; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and dictator, the leader of the right-wing Nationalist military rebellion in the...

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) Luther Halsey Gulick (1892–1993) was an expert on public administration. Life Luther Halsey Gulick was born January 17, 1892 in Osaka, Japan. His father was congregationalist missionary Sid...

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Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery. This...

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note: Spurgeon lineage after Pedigree Chart in "The Spurgeon family : being an account of the descent and family of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, with notes on the family in general, particulary the essex b...

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Samuel Sebastian Wesley (14 August 1810 – 19 April 1876) was an English organist and composer. Biography Born in London, he was the eldest child in the composer Samuel Wesley's second famil...

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Samuel Wesley (24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart (1756–1791) and was called by some "the Englis...

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She was an American socialite dubbed by the media as the "Poor Little Rich Girl" because of her troubled life. She donated Winfield House to the United States government, to be used as the residence of...

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Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley PC, FRS, FSA (29 April 1766 – 8 February 1851) was an English politician, and one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer in British history. Bac...

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Samuel Humphreys (23 November 1778 – 16 August 1846) was a noted American naval architect and shipbuilder in the early 19th century. He served the United States Navy as the Chief Constructor for the ...

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Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (* 5. Februar 1897 in Sankt Martin im Innkreis; † 29. Juni 1945 in Salzburg) war ein deutscher Adliger. Er ermordete am 21. Februar 1919 den bayerischen Ministerpräside...

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Sir Hugh Cholmeley , 4th Baronet (21 July 1632 – 9 January 1689) was an English politician and baronet. Born at Fyling Hall, near Whitby in Yorkshire, he was the second son of Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1...

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Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840) was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century. A grandson of Henry Fox, ...

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Norman Selfe (9 December 1839 - 15 October 1911) was an Australian engineer, naval architect, inventor, urban visionary and controversial advocate of technical education. Having immigrated with his f...

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Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 12 November 1793) was a politician in the United Kingdom best known for lending his name to the so-called "Gordon Riots" of 1780. A colourful personality, he ...

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Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC (8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891) was an English statesman and poet. He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880...

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* genmarenostrum.com ; wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com... ; E1. Matteo Rosso “il Grande” (* 1178 + 13-10-1246), Nobile Romano, Signore di Vicovaro, Licenza, Bardella, Cantalupo, Roccagiovine, Galera, Fo...

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John Meredith Read (July 21, 1797 – November 29, 1874) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and Chief J...

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Walker Anderson was a Florida lawyer and Democratic politician who served on the Florida Supreme Court from 1851 to 1853. He was born in Petersburg, Virginia, on July 18, 1801. He studied law at ...

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American heiress and philanthropist. Doris Duke (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American heiress, horticulturalist, art collector, and philanthropist. Daughter of an immensely ric...

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Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel PC (3 August 1829 – 24 October 1912), was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1895. He was Speaker of the House of Commo...

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Charles Vincent Massey PC CH CC CD FRSC(hon)[n 1] (February 20, 1887 – December 30, 1967) was a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Canadian Confeder...

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Mari Maseng (born March 15, 1954) is a Republican advisor who has worked for President Ronald Reagan and Senator Robert Dole. Career Maseng served President Reagan in the White House on three...

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Mr. George Lansbury, Labour M.P. for the Bow and Bromley Division of Poplar since 1922 and Leader of the Opposition from 1932 to 1935, who had been ill for some time in Manor House Hospital, died last ...

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Enid A. Haupt (May 13, 1906 – October 25, 2005) was an American publisher and philanthropist whose gifts supported horticulture, the arts, architectural and historic preservation, and cancer research...

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Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand (13 September 1898 - 31 July 1944) was private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for 21 years. Early life LeHand was born in Potsdam, New York ...

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Thomas Gardiner Corcoran (1900–1981) was one of several Irish American advisors in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's brain trust during the New Deal, and later, a close friend and advisor to Pres...

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Nathanael Greene Herreshoff I (March 18, 1848 – June 2, 1938), was an American naval architect-mechanical engineer. "Captain Nat," as he was known, revolutionized yacht design, and produced a success...

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Léonie Gilmour (17 June 1873-31 December 1933) was an American educator, editor, and journalist. She was the lover and editor of the writer Yone Noguchi and the mother of sculptor Isamu Noguchi and d...

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He was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic, spiritual and emot...

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Pierre Boucher, along with his father Gaspard Boucher and relation Marin Boucher are the common ancestors of a large proportion of Bouchers, Bowchers, Butchers, and other similar families in Canada and...

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) Isaac Davis (c. 1758–1810) was a Welsh advisor to Kamehameha I and helped form the Kingdom of Hawaii. He arrived in Hawaii in 1790 as the sole survivor of the massacre of the crew of The Fair Ameri...

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) John Young (c. 1742–1835) was a British subject who became an important military advisor to Kamehameha I during the formation of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was left behind by Simon Metcalfe, captain...

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Edward Charles MacIntosh Bowra (1841–1874) was a British citizen serving in the Chinese Maritime Customs working for the government of the Qing dynasty. He was among those treaty port residents who c...

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Lorado Zadoc Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator. Taft was born in Elmwood, Illinois in 1860 and died in his home studio in Chicago in 1936. Selected Commissions General Ulysse...

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Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 – March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, politician, and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the title of Colonel House, although he had no military experie...

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Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States. ...

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. William Griffith Wilson (November 26, 1895 – January 24, 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), an international mutual aid fellowship with ov...

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. Lois Wilson (née Burnham) (4 March 1891 – 5 October 1988), also known as Lois W., was the co-founder of Al-Anon, a support group for the friends and family of alcoholics. She was the wife of Alcoho...

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor #: A006842 Perhaps the most influential member of the Drayton family of all, in terms of the history of South Carolina and of t...

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Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, KG (1 March 1577 – 13 March 1634/1635), was Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Lord Treasurer of England under James I and Charles I, being one of the most infl...

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) Andrew Hamilton (c. 1676 – August 4, 1741) was a Scottish lawyer in the Thirteen Colonies, where he finally settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was best known for his legal victory on behalf ...

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Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand (June 4, 1816 – July 15, 1897) was a French aristocrat, lawyer, poet, and novelist who emigrated at a young age to the United States. During the American...

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Daniel Dulany the Younger (June 28, 1722 – March 17, 1797) was a Maryland Loyalist politician, Mayor of Annapolis, and an influential American lawyer in the period immediately before the American Rev...

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BRISTOL1572Family and Education b. c.1532, 2nd s. of Alexander Popham† of Huntworth by Joan, da. of Sir Edward Stradling of St. Donat’s, Glam.; bro. of Edward. educ. Balliol, Oxf. and M. Temple, Autumn...

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Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761-1804) was an illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and an enslaved African woman known as Belle. Very little is known about Belle except that she was black. Her...

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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, SL, PC (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793) was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educa...

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Anthony Walton White Evans (October 31, 1817 – November 28, 1886) was an American civil engineer whose work included countless railroad and canal commissions in North and South America during the mid...

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Colonel Arthur Hale Woods (January 29, 1870 – May 12, 1942) was an American educator, journalist, military and law enforcement officer. One of the most prominent police reformers during the early 20t...

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Brigadier-General The Honourable Charles Granville Bruce, CB, MVO (7 April 1866 at London – 12 July 1939 at London) was a Himalayan veteran and leader of the second and third British expeditions to M...

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Deacon Shem Drowne (December 4, 1683 – January 13, 1774) was a colonial coppersmith and tinplate worker in Boston, Massachusetts and was America's first documented weathervane maker. He is most famou...

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Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker. He was the only pe...

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The Duchess of Marlborough, American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt wearing an extravagant, thick pearl choker, accompanied by several longer necklaces, typical of that era. (from a photograph, 1902 ---...

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Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy GCMG CB (5 April 1809 – 3 June 1883) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of a number of British colonies, namely Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Van...

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William Marshall Bullitt (March 4, 1873 – October 3, 1957) was an influential lawyer and author who served as Solicitor General of the United States starting in 1912. He was victim of one of the larg...

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Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American social worker, management consultant and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. She also...

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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 – May 1907) (sometimes spelled Keckly) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civic activist and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as...

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Edward Burgess (1848–1891) was an American yacht designer, born June 30, 1848 in West Sandwich, Massachusetts. Edward is fifth son of Benjamin Franklin Burgess (1818–1876) and Cordelia Williams E...

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American-Japanese educator. Founder of The Irwin School. Daughter of Robert Walker Irwin, descendent of Benjamin Franklin; and Iki Takechi, a Japanese noblewoman and daughter of a Japanese sumurai....

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Katharine Coman (23 November 1857 – 11 January 1915) was a social activist and distinguished economist. She specialized in teaching about the development of the American West. Wellesley College named...

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E. Alexander Bergstrom (March 11, 1919–1973) was an ornithologist, scientific journal editor, and conservationist, doing all of his work in these fields as a volunteer. Life Edward Alexander ...

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Edward Murray Bassett (1863–1948) was one of the founding fathers of modern day urban planning. Known as "The Father of American Zoning," Bassett wrote the first comprehensive zoning ordinance in the...

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Thor Heyerdahl (født 6. oktober 1914 i Larvik, død 18. april 2002 i Colla Micheri, Italia) var arkeolog, vitenskapsmann og etnolog. Han var sønn av bryggerieier Thor Heyerdahl (1869–1957) og Alison Lyn...

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Eliot Janeway (1913—1993), born Eliot Jacobstein, was an influential American economist, journalist and author whose career spanned seven decades. He was an economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D....

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Herbert Putnam (20 September 1861 – 14 August 1955) was an American lawyer, publisher, and librarian. He was the eighth (and also the longest serving) Librarian of the United States Congress from 1899 ...

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Colonel Sir George Everest ( /ˈiːvrɨst/; 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843. Sir George was largely responsible for co...

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Joan Hinton (Chinese name: 寒春, Pinyin: Hán Chūn; 20 October 1921 – 8 June 2010) was a nuclear physicist and one of the few women who worked for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. She lived in the P...

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Leonard B. Boudin (July 20, 1912- November 24, 1989) was an American civil liberties attorney and left-wing activist who represented Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame and Dr. Benjamin Spock, th...

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Peter Hains (born January 9, 1872) was an Army Captain convicted of killing his wife's lover. The case became a sensational murder trial in New York City in 1909. Abetted by his brother, sea ...

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Birger jarl , död 1266, statsman, enligt traditionen av Folkungaätten, Sveriges styresman 1248-66 under svågern Erik Erikssons och sonen Valdemars kungatid. Tronstrider mellan Sverkerska och Erikska ät...

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