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Claude Chappe (December 25 1763 – January 23 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. This was the […]

Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence (29 March 1952 – 11 June 2012) was a Cuban amateur boxer and engineer. Teófilo is one of only three boxers to win three Olympic gold medals […]

Eurico Gaspar Dutra (Portuguese: [ewˈɾiku ɡasˈpaɾ ˈdutrɐ]; 1883–1974) was a Brazilian marshal politician and president of Brazil from 1946–1951.He was born in Cuiabá Mato Grosso and like many other Brazilians […]

Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg (29 November 1856 – 1 January 1921) was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 […]

Walter Sans Avoir (in French Fr. Gautier Sans-Avoir) (died 1096) also mistakenly known as the Penniless was the lord of Boissy-sans-Avoir in the Île-de-France. As lieutenant to Peter the Hermit […]

Longinus is the name given in medieval and some modern Christian traditions to the Roman soldier who pierced Jesus in his side with a lance the Holy Lance (lancea as […]

Jeff Fenech (born 28 May 1964 in St Peters Sydney New South Wales) is a retired Australian boxer a three-weight world champion and a boxing trainer. During his career Fenech […]

Janez Drnovšek (pronounced [ˈjaːnɛz dərˈnoːu̯ʃɛk]; 17 May 1950 – 23 February 2008) was a Slovenian liberal politician President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1989–1990) Prime Minister of Slovenia (1992–2002) and […]

César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsesaɾ ɣaˈβirja]; born 31 March 1947) was the 28th President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994 and the 7th Secretary General of the Organization […]

David Edward Jenkins (born 26 January 1925) is a Church of England cleric and former Bishop of Durham a position he held from 1984 until 1994. Since retirement he has […]