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  • 1Commission (document) — A commission is a physical document issued to certify the appointment of a commissioned officer by a sovereign power. The more specific terms commissioning parchment or commissioning scroll are often used to avoid ambiguity, due to commission… …

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  • 2Officer (armed forces) — An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority. Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and… …

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  • 3Harold Macmillan — The Right Honourable The Earl of Stockton OM PC FRS Prime Minister of the United Kingdom In office …

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  • 4Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet — For other people named Charles Trevelyan, see Charles Trevelyan (disambiguation). Trevelyan in the 1840s Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB (2 April 1807 – 19 June 1886) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. As a… …

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  • 5Drawings by Douglas Hamilton — There are at least two hundred and twelve detailed drawings by Douglas Hamilton of South Indian landscapes, game animals and forestry operations. Eighty seven of Hamilton s careful drawings of the Annaimalai Hills, Palani Hills and Shevaroy Hills …

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  • 6My Early Life — Cover of My Early Life by Winston Churchill My Early Life: A Roving Commission is a 1930 book by Winston Churchill. It is an autobiography of his life from birth in 1874 up to approximately 1902. A significant portion of the book covers his… …

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  • 7Ernest Shackleton — Infobox Person name = Ernest Henry Shackleton image size = 180px caption = Ernest Shackleton birth date = birth date|1874|2|15|df=yes birth place = Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland death date = dda|1922|1|5|1874|2|15|df=yes death place = South… …

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  • 8Stanley, Sir Henry Morton — orig. John Rowlands born Jan. 28, 1841, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales died May 10, 1904, London, Eng. British U.S. explorer of central Africa. An illegitimate child, Stanley grew up partly in a British workhouse; he sailed to the U.S. as a cabin… …

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  • 9FRANKFURTER, FELIX — (1882–1965), U.S. jurist. Frankfurter, who was born in Vienna, was taken to the United States at the age of 12. His parents settled on the Lower East Side of New York, where his father, scion of a long line of rabbis, was a modest tradesman.… …

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  • 10Edward Gibbon — Infobox Person caption = Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) birth date = April 27, 1737 death date = death date and age|1794|1|16|1737|4|27 birth place = Putney, England, UK death place = London, England, UKEdward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 [Gibbon s birthday …

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