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Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro

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Robert De Niro is an American actor, director and producer.

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Lord Acton

Lord Acton

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Charles Wadsworth

Charles Wadsworth

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Charles Wadsworth is a classical pianist and musical promoter. In 1960, he gained international renown by originating the Midday Concerts at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He also started the chamber music concert series at the Spoleto Festival USA, which he directs, performs at and hosts

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William Powell

William Powell

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William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 - March 5, 1984) was a three-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical roles. He is most widely known for portraying the detective Nick Charles in six The Thin Man films

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Charles Feidelson

Charles Feidelson

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Occam

Occam

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Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia

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Titus Maccius Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus

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comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC)

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Robert D. Sprecht

Robert D. Sprecht

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Lonny Starr

Lonny Starr

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Jose Simon

Jose Simon

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Jose Simon (1945? - April 19, 2008) was an American comedian and musician who founded Comedy Day in San Francisco and aided that city's reemergence of stand-up comedy starting in the 1970s

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William Plomer

William Plomer

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William Charles Franklyn Plomer (he pronounced the surname as ploomer) (1903-1973) was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom. Plomer edited several of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels in the 1950s and 60s

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Charles Farrar Browne

Charles Farrar Browne

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United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867)

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Oberto Airaudi

Oberto Airaudi

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Oberto Airaudi was born in Balangero, near Turin, Italy on May 29, 1950. He was a philosopher, healer, writer, and painter.

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Titus Livius

Titus Livius

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Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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United States anarchist (born in Russia) who opposed conscription; was deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 (1869-1940)

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Longinus Cassius

Longinus Cassius

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Robert D. Richardson

Robert D. Richardson

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William Pitt

William Pitt

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English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806) English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)

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Charles W. Tobey

Charles W. Tobey

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Charles F. Kettering

Charles F. Kettering

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O.G. Sutton

O.G. Sutton

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Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

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Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ксения Александровна Романова; 6 April 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the eldest daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II

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Tiresias

Tiresias

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