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Sir Frederick Henry Royce 1st Baronet of Seaton OBE (27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933) was an English engineer and car designer who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the […]

Zhang Yimou (Mandarin pronunciation: [tʂɑ́ŋ îmɤ̌ʊ̯]) (born 14 November 1951) is a Chinese film director producer writer and actor and former cinematographer.

Barney Ross (born Dov-Ber Beryl David Rosofsky; December 23 1909 – January 17 1967) was an American professional boxer. Ross became a world champion in three weight divisions and was […]

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot Baron de Laune (10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781) was a French economist and statesman. A physiocrat he is today best remembered as an early advocate for […]

Georgius Gemistus (Greek: Γεώργιος Γεμιστός; c. 1355–1452/1454) later called Plethon or Pletho (Greek: Πλήθων) was a Greek scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy. He was one of the chief pioneers of the revival […]

Gennadius II (in Greek Γεννάδιος Β’) (lay name Georgios Kourtesios Scholarios in Greek Γεώργιος Κουρτέσιος Σχολάριος) (c. 1400 – c. 1473) Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1454 to 1464 philosopher […]

Charles James Blomfield (29 May 1786 – 5 August 1857) was a British divine and a Church of England bishop for 32 years.

John Kemp (c. 1380 – 22 March 1454) was a medieval English cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England.

John de Gray (died 18 October 1214) was a medieval English Bishop of Norwich and the elected but unconfirmed Archbishop of Canterbury. He was employed in the service of John […]

Adolf Ogi (born 18 July 1942) is a Swiss politician from the village of Kandersteg in the Swiss Alps.He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 9 December 1987 […]