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  • 61Simon Ramo — Infobox Scientist name = Simon Ramo box width = image width =150px caption = Simon Ramo birth date = May 13, 1913 (age 95) birth place = Salt Lake City, Utah death date = death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = American ethnicity =… …

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  • 62Hocus Pocus (novel) — infobox Book | name = Hocus Pocus title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover) author = Kurt Vonnegut illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher =… …

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  • 63The Folding Star — Infobox Book | name = The Folding Star image caption = author = Alan Hollinghurst country = Great Britain language = English genre = Novel publisher = Chatto Windus Ltd release date = 1994 media type = pages = isbn = The Folding Star is a 1994… …

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  • 64Aelius Aristides — Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 References 3.1 Other sources …

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  • 65Richard Tarlton — (1530 ndash; September 3, 1588), an English actor, was the most famous clown of his era.He was born in Condover, Shropshire. Firm information on his early life is scarce; traditions maintain that he started out as either a London apprentice, or a …

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  • 66Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899–1918) — For other uses, see Grand Duchess Maria of Russia. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, ca. 1914. Full name Maria Nikolaevna Romanova H …

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  • 67Ali-Shir Nava'i — Nizām al Din Ali Shīr Navā i (1441 1501) Nizām al Din ʿAlī Shīr[1] Herawī (Chagatai and Persian: نظام الدین على شير هروی; Uzbek: Alisher Navoiy; Uyghur: ئەلىشىر نەۋائى‎) (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501) was a Central Asian Turkic politician,… …

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  • 68Catullus 64 — is an epyllion or little epic poem written by Catullus. Catullus longest poem, it retains his famed linguistic witticisms while expressing an appropriately epic tone.Though ostensibly concerning itself with the marriage of Peleus and the sea… …

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  • 69John Philpot Curran — (July 24, 1750 October 14, 1817) was an Irish orator and wit, born in Newmarket, County Cork. He was the son of James and Sarah Curran.CareerA friend of the family, Rev. Nathaniel Boyse, arranged to have young John educated at Midleton, County… …

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  • 70Clifton Fadiman — Clifton P. Kip Fadiman (May 15, 1904 June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. Contents 1 Literary career 1.1 Books by Clifton Fadiman 2 Radio and television …

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