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Teimour Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; Azerbaijani: Teymur Rəcəbov; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster and former chess prodigy. On the December 2013 FIDE list Radjabov has […]

Frank Forrester Church III (July 25 1924 – April 7 1984) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party he served as a United States Senator […]

Eugène Freyssinet (French: [øʒɛn fʁɛsinɛ]) (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete.Freyssinet was born in […]

Janet Rachael Margaret Morgan (later known by her married name Janet Shardlow) (1921–1990) was an English squash player who dominated the game in the 1950s. She won the British Open […]

In Greek mythology the mountainous district of Nysa (Greek: Νῦσα) variously associated with Ethiopia Libya Tribalia India or Arabia by Greek mythographers was the traditional place where the rain nymphs […]

Alfonse Marcello Al D’Amato (born August 1 1937) is an American lawyer and former New York politician. A Republican he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 […]

John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955 in London) is an English chess grandmaster a three-time world champion in chess problem solving a chess writer and publisher and a […]

Jan Kodeš (Czech: Jan Kodeš; born March 1 1946 in Prague Czechoslovakia) is a right-handed Czech former tennis player who won three Grand Slam events in the early 1970s.Kodeš’s greatest […]

Huángbò Xīyùn (simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运; traditional Chinese: 黄檗希運; Wade–Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün; literally Xiyun of Mt. Huangbo Japanese: Ōbaku Kiun) (died 850) was an influential Chinese master of Zen Buddhism during […]

Saint Dymphna (also: Dympna Dimpna) was the daughter of a pagan Irish king and his Christian wife in the 7th century AD. She was murdered by her father. The story […]