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  • 41Brunetto Latini — (c. 1220 ndash;1294) (signed his name Burnectus Latinus in Latin and Burnecto Latino in Italian) was an Italian philosopher, scholar and statesman.LifeBrunetto Latini was born in Florence in 1220, the son of Buonaccorso Latini. He belonged to the …

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  • 42William Petre — Sir William Petre (circa 1505 – 1572) was born in Devon in 1505 and educated as a lawyer at Exeter College, Oxford. He became a public servant, probably through the influence of the Boleyns, one of whom, George, he had tutored at Oxford and… …

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  • 43William Edward Hall — (August 22, 1835 November 30, 1894) was an English lawyer and mountaineer who published some influential works on international law.Early lifeHall was the only child of William Hall, a doctor and descendant of a junior branch of the Halls of… …

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  • 44Riverdale High School (comics) — Infobox comics location name = Riverdale High School imagesize = caption = publisher = Archie Comics debut = creators = type = school=y residents = races = locations = subcat = altcat = sortkey = PAGENAMEIn the fictional realm of Archie Comics,… …

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  • 45Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann — (1797 ndash; 1873), also known as Karl Friedrich Naumann, was a German mineralogist and geologist. Naumann crater on the Moon is named after him.Naumann was born at Dresden on the 30th of May 1797, the son of a distinguished musician and composer …

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  • 46Michael Hussey — Personal information Full name Michael Edward Killeen Hussey Born 27 May 1975 (1975 05 27) (age 36) Mount Lawley, Western Austral …

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  • 47Paul McGuigan (musician) — Infobox Person image size = 150px name = Paul Guigsy McGuigan| birth date = Birth date and age|1971|5|9|mf=y birth place = Manchester, England music genre = Britpop British rock Classic rock years active = 1991n dash1999 |Paul McGuigan (born 9… …

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  • 48Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber — (born 22 October 1968) is a disc jockey, pop music historian, and engineer.Ron has an encyclopaedic knowledge of popular music, particularly that of the 1970s and 1980s. His long running syndicated radio show, Crap From The Past , originates from …

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  • 49Alfred Sherman — Sir Alfred Sherman, KBE, (10 November 1919 – 26 August, 2006) was a writer, journalist, political analyst and an adviser to Margaret Thatcher. Described by a long time associate as a brilliant polymath, a consummate homo politicus, and one of the …

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  • 50Clive Everton — Born 7 December 1937 (1937 12 07) (age 73) Sport country Welsh Professional 1981– Highest ranking 48 1983/84) …

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