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Jânio da Silva Quadros (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒɐ̃ɲu dɐ ˈsiwvɐ ˈkwadɾus] ; January 25 1917 — February 16 1992) was a Brazilian politician who served as President of Brazil for only […]

Carmen Mary Lawrence (born 2 March 1948) is a retired Australian politician; a former Premier of Western Australia and the first woman to become Premier of a State of the […]

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor. He is known to have built the first working self-propelled mechanical vehicle—arguably the world’s first automobile. This […]

Vitaly Mikhaylovich Zholobov (Russian: Виталий Михайлович Жолобов; born June 18 1937 in Zburyivka Kherson Oblast Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Soyuz 21 space flight as the […]

Rob Gifford is a British radio correspondent and journalist. He has degrees in Chinese Studies from Durham University and in Regional Studies (East Asia) from Harvard University. He began to […]

The Boston Strangler is a name attributed to the murderer (or murderers) of 13 women in and near Boston Massachusetts United States in the early 1960s.

The Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) is a fictional character a supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe. He is one of the most feared and powerful crime lords in the Marvel Universe. […]

Tassos (Efstathios) Nikolaou Papadopoulos (Greek: Τάσσος (Ευστάθιος) Νικολάου Παπαδόπουλος; 7 January 1934 – 12 December 2008) was a Cypriot politician who served as the fifth President of the Republic of […]

Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos (born 11 October 1956) is a Paraguayan politician who served as President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008. He currently holds the title of Senator for […]

Dr. Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (About this sound pronunciation ahb-dool-KAH-seem SAH-laht HAH-sahn; Somali: Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan; Arabic: عبدي قاسم صلاد حسن‎; born 1941) is a Somali politician. He was President of […]