Samuel Edward Ramey--(born March 28, 1942 in Colby, Kansas)--An American opera singer, he is considered one of the finest bass-baritone singers of his generation.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 08:40 am
Samuel Morse - American inventor of telegraph & Morse Code
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 09:08 am
Samuel Butler--(December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902) was a British writer best known for his satire Erewhon and his posthumous novel The Way Of All Flesh.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 10:02 am
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, DBE
President of the Family Division in the English Legal Establishment.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 11:17 am
Elizabeth Hanford "Liddy" Dole--(born July 29, 1936) was elected to the United States Senate in 2002 to represent North Carolina for a term ending in 2009. She is a Republican and is also the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. She was the first woman to hold two different cabinet positions in the administrations of two different U.S. Presidents. She also served as the president of the American Red Cross.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 01:54 pm
Elizabeth Bathory - Hungarian countess & mass killer who became an inspiration for vampire legends.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 02:00 pm
Elizabeth Montgomery - actress
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 02:00 pm
Elizabeth Taylor. A lady with a legion of adoring fans on which the sun never sets.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 02:56 pm
Robert Lewis Taylor - (24 September 1912 - 30 September 1998) was an American author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1959 for his novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 03:01 pm
Clive Staples Lewis--(29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, and by his friends as Jack, was an Irish author and scholar of mixed Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 03:25 pm
Clive James AM - (born October 10, 1939) in Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is an expatriate Australian writer, poet, essayist, critic, and commentator on popular culture.
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Tue 5 Sep, 2006 11:33 pm
Robert Clive, 1st Baron of Plessey - Statesman and General, key figure in the East India Company and the establishment of the British Raj.
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Wed 6 Sep, 2006 01:57 am
J. (Julius) Robert Oppenheimer--(April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico.
Known colloquially as "the father of the atomic bomb".
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Wed 6 Sep, 2006 04:56 am
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum - (August 6, 1917 - July 1, 1997) was an American film actor and singer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir genre, and is considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and '60s.
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Wed 6 Sep, 2006 05:03 am
Charles MacArthur--(b. November 5, 1895, Scranton, Pennsylvania; d. April 21, 1956, New York City) was an American playwright and screenwriter. The son of a Baptist minister, he is best known for his play with Ben Hecht, "The Front Page", which has been filmed frequently.
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Wed 6 Sep, 2006 05:05 am
Douglas MacArthur - (January 26, 1880 - April 5, 1964) was an American general and Medal of Honor recipient, who was Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II.
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Wed 6 Sep, 2006 05:08 am
Douglas Noël Adams--(March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001) was a cult British author, comic radio dramatist, and amateur musician. He is known most notably as author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
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Wed 6 Sep, 2006 05:11 am
Kirk Douglas - (born December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is also father to Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas.
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Wed 6 Sep, 2006 05:19 am
Kirk Thomas Cameron--(born October 12, 1970) is an American actor who became popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s for his role as Mike Seaver on the sitcom "Growing Pains", and later for playing Buck Williams in the Left Behind film series. Cameron is currently a partner in the evangelical Christian ministry The Way of the Master
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Wed 6 Sep, 2006 06:06 am
Thomas Alva Edison - (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century.
