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•  Fra Angelico

  Fra Angelico (c. 1395 – February 18, 1455), born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". Known in Italy as il Beato Angelico, he was known to his contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John from Fiesole). In Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, written prior to 1555, he was already known as Fra Giovanni Angelico (Brother Giovanni the Angelic One).

  

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•  Hildegard of Bingen

  Blessed Hildegard of Bingen, also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sybil of the Rhine, was a Christian mystic, German Benedictine abbess, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, channeller, visionary, composer, and polymath. Elected a ' by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. She was a composer with an extant biography from her own time.

  

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•  Louis Aleman

  Louis Aleman (c. 1390 - September 16, 1450) was a French cardinal. He was born of a noble family at the castle of Arbent near Bugey. A relative was the Papal Chamberlain. He was successively bishop of Maguelonne (1418), archbishop of Arles (1423) and Cardinal Priest of S. Cecilia (1426). He was a prominent member of the council of Basel, and, together with Cardinal Julian Cesarini, led the party which maintained the supremacy of general councils over the pope's authority.

  

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•  Pope John XXIII

  Blessed Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963), known as Blessed John XXIII since his beatification, was elected as the 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City on October 28, 1958. He called the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) but did not live to see it to completion, dying on 3 June 1963, two months after the completion of his final encyclical, Pacem in Terris.

  

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•  Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

  Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called Al-Hakim bi Amr al-Lāh, was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam (996–1021). Born in 985, Abu ‘Ali “Mansur” succeeded his father Abū Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz (975–996) at the age of eleven on 14 October, 996 with the caliphal title of al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah. He was the first Fatimid ruler to be born in Egypt.

  

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•  Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany

  Boniface III (also Boniface IV or Boniface of Canossa; c. 985 – 6 May 1052), the father of Matilda of Canossa, was the most powerful north Italian prince of his age. By inheritance he was Count (or lord) of Brescia, Canossa, Ferrara, Florence, Lucca, Mantua, Modena, Pisa, Pistoia, Parma, Reggio, and Verona from 1007 and, by appointment, Margrave of Tuscany from 1027 until his assassination in 1052. He was the son of the Margrave Tedald and Willa of Bologna.

  

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•  Osmond Drengot

  Osmond Drengot (c. 985–1 October 1018) was one of the first Norman adventurers in the Mezzogiorno. He was the son of a petty, but rich, lord of Carreaux, near Avesnes-en-Bray in the region of Rouen. Carreaux gives his family the alternate name of de Quarrel. In 1016, Osmond took part in a hunt with Duke Richard II of Normandy. While on hunt, he killed one William Repostel, a relative of the duke, in revenge for his sleeping with one of Osmond's daughters.

  

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•  Radbot, Count of Habsburg

  Radbot, Count of Habsburg, also known as Radbot of Klettgau (985–1045), was graf in the Klettgau shire on the High Rhine in Swabia. One of the progenitors of the Habsburg dynasty, he was probably the second son of Count Lanzelin of Klettgau and the younger brother of Bishop Werner I of Strasbourg. In 1010, he married Ida (970-1026), daughter of Duke Frederick I of Upper Lorraine. Their son was named Werner I, Count of Habsburg.

  

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•  Maria of Amalfi

  Maria (985–c. 1040) was one of the two daughters of Pandulf II of Benevento, who was also Pandulf III of Capua. She married Sergius II of Amalfi around 26 April 1002. Her sister Gaitelgrima married Guaimar III of Salerno, while her brothers, Landulf and Pandulf, became princes respectively of Benevento and Capua. Maria had two sons, John and Manso. In 1028, she and the younger son, Manso, seized the Amalfitan throne and expelled Sergius and John, who fled to Constantinople.

  

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•  Theobald II of Blois

  Theobald II, Count of Blois (c. 985–11 July 1004) was the eldest son and heir of Odo I, Count of Blois, and Bertha of Burgundy. He became Count of Blois, Châteaudun, Chartres and Reims after the death of his father in 996. He left no heirs; on his death, he was succeeded by his younger brother, Odo II, Count of Blois.

  

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•  ASP

  ASP is a three-letter acronym with numerous meanings in different contexts.

  

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•  Tropical Storm Melissa

  The name Melissa has been used for two tropical cyclones worldwide. Atlantic 2007's Tropical Storm Melissa - a short-lived storm west of Cape Verde, never threatened land. Western Pacific 1994's Super Typhoon Melissa (T9424, 26W) - remained over open waters

  

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•  Slieve Gallion

  Slieve Gallion is a mountain in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. By road, it is 4 miles (6.4 km) from Moneymore, 8 miles (13 km) from Cookstown, and 8 miles (13 km) from Magherafelt. It is the eastern limit of the Sperrin Mountains range.

  

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•  Yngwie J. Malmsteen/Trial By Fire

  

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•  Golden share

  A Golden Share is a nominal share which is able to outvote all other shares in certain specified circumstances, often held by a government organization, in a government company undergoing the process of privatization and transformation into a stock-company.

  

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