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Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo SDB GCL (born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Along with José Ramos-Horta he received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for work […]

Magnus Maximus (Latin: Flavius Magnus Maximus Augustus) (ca. 335 – August 28 388) also known as Maximianus and Macsen Wledig in Welsh was Western Roman Emperor from 383 to 388.In […]

Coen de Koning (March 30 1879 – July 29 1954) was twice winner of the Elfstedentocht and the second Dutch speed skating World Champion.Born in Edam North Holland Netherlands he […]

Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester (1208? – 4 August 1265) also called Simon de Munford and sometimes referred to as Simon VI de Montfort to distinguish him from […]

Juan Manuel Fangio (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfanχjo] Italian pronunciation: [ˈfandʒo]; 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995) nicknamed El Chueco (the bowlegged one also commonly translated as bandy legged) or El […]

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (German: [ˈɡɔtloːp ˈfreːɡə]; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German mathematician logician and philosopher. He is considered to be one of the founders […]

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15 1907 – December 5 2012) known as Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian Portuguese: [ɔʃˈkaʁ ˈniemajeʁ]) was a Brazilian architect who is considered to […]

Tonya Maxene Harding (born November 12 1970) is an American figure skating champion a two-time Olympian and a two-time Skate America Champion. In 1991 she won the U.S. Figure Skating […]

David Gauthier (born 1932) is a Canadian-American philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian social contract (contractarian) theory of morality as laid out in his book Morals by Agreement.

Saul Aaron Kripke (/sɔːl ˈkrɪpki/; born November 13 1940) is an American philosopher and logician. He is currently McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University and teaches as a […]