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John Taylor Lewis (October 28, 1894 – December 5, 1983) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army.
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Canuto Borromeo was a Filipino mechanical engineer.
Historical Review of the Seminary College of San Carlos of Cebu 1867-1917 (p. 202)
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Canuto Borromeo was a Filipino mechanical engineer.
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Luis Francisco was a Filipino civil engineer and politician. He represented the second district of Batangas at the House of Representatives of the Philippines from June 5, 1934 to September 16, 1935.
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Photo from La Vanguardia (9 June 1934, p. 28): https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=1000380227&posicion=28&presentacion=pagina
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This work was first published in the Philippines and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. The work meets one of the following criteria:
It is an anonymous or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication
It is an audiovisual or photographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication
It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its publication
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Philippine origin that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origin on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the Philippines, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996.)
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
Luis Francisco was a Filipino civil engineer and politician. He represented the second district of Batangas at the House of Representatives of the Philippines from June 5, 1934 to September 16, 1935.
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After graduating from high school in Batangas, he was sent as a pensionado to the Lewis Technical Institute in Illinois to take up courses in preparation for a college degree. He was then sent to the U...
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After graduating from high school in Batangas, he was sent as a pensionado to the Lewis Technical Institute in Illinois to take up courses in preparation for a college degree. He was then sent to the U...
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Bernard Aloysius Weber, Jr.
Bernard A. Weber Jr., 74, formerly of Olney, died January 19, 2003 in Bend, Oregon.
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Bernard Aloysius Weber, Jr.
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John Bracken PC (22 June 1883 – 18 March 1969) was a Canadian agronomist and politician who was the 11th and longest-serving premier of Manitoba (1922–1943) and later the leader of the Progressive Co...
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Robin McKown (January 27, 1907 — August 1975) was an American writer of young adult literature, chiefly biography and fiction. During and after World War II, she was chair of an organization that hel...
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Robin McKown (January 27, 1907 — August 1975) was an American writer of young adult literature, chiefly biography and fiction. During and after World War II, she was chair of an organization that hel...
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Vontae Ottis Davis (May 27, 1988 – April 1, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for the Miami Dolphins, Indianapolis Colts, and Buffalo Bills of the National Footb...
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Vontae Ottis Davis (May 27, 1988 – April 1, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for the Miami Dolphins, Indianapolis Colts, and Buffalo Bills of the National Footb...
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James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic compositi...
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James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic compositi...
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Monroe W. Karmin, a reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for an article about links between organized crime in the United States and businesses in the Bahamas, died on Friday at his home in Bethes...
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Monroe W. Karmin, a reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for an article about links between organized crime in the United States and businesses in the Bahamas, died on Friday at his home in Bethes...
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His "Inside Report" syndicated column, shared for 30 years with the late Rowland Evans, was important reading for anyone who wanted to know what was happening in Washington. Their journalism, which rep...
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His "Inside Report" syndicated column, shared for 30 years with the late Rowland Evans, was important reading for anyone who wanted to know what was happening in Washington. Their journalism, which rep...
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First as a reporter and then, beginning in 1953, as a columnist, Mr. Reston was perhaps the most influential journalist of his generation. ...
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From an obituary in the New York Times by R.W. Apple, Jr.:
First as a reporter and then, beginning in 1953, as a columnist, Mr. Reston was perhaps the most influential journalist of his generation. ...
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George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938) is an American mathematician working in special functions, number theory, analysis and combinatorics.
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George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938) is an American mathematician working in special functions, number theory, analysis and combinatorics.
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Thomas N. DeVito (born August 7, 1998) is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Syracuse before transferring to...
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Richard Paul Saller (born October 18, 1952) is an American professor of European studies. He is the former provost of the University of Chicago and the former dean of the School of Humanities and Sci...
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Richard Paul Saller (born October 18, 1952) is an American professor of European studies. He is the former provost of the University of Chicago and the former dean of the School of Humanities and Sci...
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Vicente Orosa was a Filipino engineer. He became Secretary of Public Works and Communications and later Chairman of the People's Homesite and Housing Corporation (PHHC) during the administration of Pre...
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Vicente Orosa was a Filipino engineer. He became Secretary of Public Works and Communications and later Chairman of the People's Homesite and Housing Corporation (PHHC) during the administration of Pre...
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Mary Belle Sweet was the University of Idaho's first professionally trained librarian when she was hired in 1905. At 26, Sweet had recently graduated from the University of Illinois Library School.
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Mary Belle Sweet was the University of Idaho's first professionally trained librarian when she was hired in 1905. At 26, Sweet had recently graduated from the University of Illinois Library School.
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