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 | Artist. Born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, in 1869 he began working for art dealers, but in 1877 he studied religion and from 1878 to 1880 he was an evangelist in Belgium.
Later he decided to become an artist. He admired the work of Millet and Daumier and his early subjects were peasants. He lived in Brussels and in Netherlands and in February 1886 he moved to Paris where he li... |  | 06/15/2010 | 237 | 
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 | John Henry Newton (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman and former slave-ship captain. He was the author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton#Writer_and_hymnist | | 01/16/2010 | 169 |
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 | George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional football player, best known for his years with Manchester United. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders. In 1968, his annus mirabilis, he won the European Cup with Manchester United, and was named the European Footballer of the Y... | | 01/04/2010 | 244 |
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 | Robert Frederick Chelsea "Bobby" Moore, OBE (12 April 1941 – 24 February 1993) was an English footballer. He captained West Ham United for more than ten years and was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup.
He won a total of 108 caps for the England team, which at the time of his international retirement in 1973 was a national record. This record was la... | | 01/04/2010 | 212 |
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 | Sir Alexander Matthew "Matt" Busby, CBE, KCSG (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager, most noted for managing Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–1971 season. He is the longest serving manager in the history of Manchester United, ahead of Sir Alex Ferguson, although the latter has overseen more matches a... | | 01/04/2010 | 149 |
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 | George Formby, Jr., OBE (26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961) was an English singer and comedian, famous for playing the banjolele, a banjo-like instrument, and performing a variety of light, comical songs. He would eventually become a popular star of stage and screen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. | | 01/04/2010 | 152 |
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 | Frank James “Gary” Cooper (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made. His career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death, and comprised more than one hundred fil... | | 01/04/2010 | 180 |
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 | Jack "Manassa Mauler" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records. He is listed #7 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
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 | James Walter Braddock (June 7, 1905 – November 29, 1974) was an Irish-American boxer who held the world heavyweight championship.
Fighting under the name James J. Braddock (ostensibly to follow the pattern set by two prior world boxing champions, James J. Corbett and James J. Jeffries), he was known for his powerful right hand, granite chin, and his amazing comeback from a flound... | | 01/04/2010 | 154 |
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 | Yankee Sullivan (James Ambrose) (March 10, 1811 – May 31, 1856) also known as Frank Murray and James Sullivan was a bare knuckle fighter and boxer. He was a Champion of Prizefighting from 1851 to October 12, 1853. He considered himself to be the inheritor of Tom Hyer's title and lost any claim to that title after losing a fight to John Morrissey.
He was born James Ambrose in Irel... | | 01/04/2010 | 139 |
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 | Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was a Jewish British athlete. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metre sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Abrahams
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6378561 | | 01/04/2010 | 243 |
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 | Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot ... | | 12/30/2009 | 154 |
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 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson got his left arm amputated after he was shot by own soldiers on May 2nd. 1863 when they thaught he was a North State soldier. He died on the 10th. May.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson | | 12/30/2009 | 157 |
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 | The Imperial Crypt Vaults are the various chambers of the Imperial Crypt in Vienna in which most members of the senior lines of the Habsburg dynasty, the hereditary Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, have been entombed, beginning in 1632.
The Imperial Crypt Vaults are an interconnected series of ten subterranean vaulted rooms, built at various times as more space was needed.
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 | Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery (Ваганьковское кладбище), established in 1771, is located in the Krasnaya Presnya (Красная Пресня) district of Moscow. It is the burial site for a number of people from ... | | 12/27/2009 | 136 |
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 | Novodevichy Cemetery (Russian: Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site.[1] It should... | | 12/27/2009 | 147 |
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 | Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German author, most famous today for his anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
He was married to Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard who became a star in Chaplins movie Modern Times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Maria_Remarque
http://en.wikipedia.org/w... | | 12/27/2009 | 179 |
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 | In this grave are W.A. Mozarts father Leopold, wife Constantia and other members of the Mozart family buried.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3017
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Mozart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constanze_Mozart | | 12/27/2009 | 207 |
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 | The Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) is situated in the district of Simmering, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 230–244, Vienna 1110, Austria, and is the largest and most famous cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries.
Opened in 1874, this enormous cemetery spans 2.4 square kilometres with 3.3 million interred here. It is also second largest cemetery, after Hamburg's Ohlsdorf Cemet... | | 12/27/2009 | 140 |
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 | Joseph Mohr, sometimes spelt Josef (December 11, 1792 – December 4, 1848) was an Austrian priest and composer, who wrote the origin words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night" which was sung first ime in Oberndorf in 1818.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mohr
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8227674 | | 12/25/2009 | 245 |
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 | Franz Xaver Gruber (November 25, 1787 – June 7, 1863), was an Austrian primary school teacher and church organist in the village of Arnsdorf. At the same time he was organist and choirmaster at St. Nicholas Church in the neighboring village of Oberndorf bei Salzburg and then in later years moved on to Hallein, Salzburg.
Together with Josef Mohr (original German lyrics), a Catholi... | | 12/25/2009 | 213 |
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 | Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (pronounced /məntˈɡʌmərɪ əv ˈæləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), often referred to as "Monty", was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer. He successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the Wes... | | 12/20/2009 | 159 |
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 | Valdemar Poulsen (23 November 1869, in Copenhagen – 23 July 1942) was a Danish engineer. He developed a magnetic wire recorder in 1899, the prototype for tape recorders we know today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_Poulsen
http://www.gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=valdemarpoulsen | | 12/20/2009 | 124 |
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 | Robert Whitehead (3 January 1823 – 14 November 1905) was an English engineer. He was born the son of a cotton-bleacher, in Bolton, England.
He developed the first self-propelled torpedo in 1866. He thus introduced the world to a weapon that almost changed the course of history during both World Wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Whitehead
http... | | 12/17/2009 | 139 |
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 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
His most famous novells are the stories abouth catholic priest and amateur detective Father Brown.
http://... | | 12/17/2009 | 114 |
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