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Guy Berkeley Berke Breathed (/ˈbrɛðɨd/ BRETH-əd; born June 21 1957) is an American cartoonist children’s book author/illustrator director and screenwriter best known for Bloom County a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that […]

Adam Ferguson FRSE (in Scottish Gaelic: Adhamh MacFhearghais) also known as Ferguson of Raith (20 June 1723 (O.S.) (1 July N.S.) – 22 February 1816) was a Scottish philosopher and […]

David Hampton (April 28 1964 – July 18 2003) was an American con artist who gained infamy in the 1980s after milking a group of wealthy Manhattanites out of thousands […]

François Ravaillac (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃swa ʁavajak]; 1578 – 27 May 1610) was a French factotum in the courts of Angoulême and a regicide. An occasional tutor and Catholic zealot he […]

Basil of Caesarea also called Saint Basil the Great (329 or 330 – January 1 379) (Greek: Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας) was the Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia […]

William Frederick Friedman (September 24 1891 – November 12 1969) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army’s Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s […]

Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2 1866 – August 6 1945) was a leading American progressive and isolationist politician from California; he served as the 23rd governor from 1911 to 1917 […]

George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. Grenville was born into an […]

Jules François Simon (French pronunciation: ​[ʒyl simɔ̃]; 31 December 1814 – 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction.