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•  Benoît Mandelbrot

  Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 20 November 1924) is a French and American mathematician, best known as the father of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center; and Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Mandelbrot was born in Poland. His family moved to France when he was a child, and he was educated in France. He is a dual French and American citizen.

  

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•  Chet Atkins

  Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who created, along with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well. His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally.

  

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•  Doris Day

  Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922) is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas.

  

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•  E. P. Thompson

  Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924, Oxford – August 28, 1993, Worcester), was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class (1963). He also published influential biographies of William Morris (1955) and (posthumously) William Blake (1993) and was a prolific journalist and essayist.

  

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•  Eric Cheney

  Eric Cheney (January 5, 1924 - December 30, 2001) was an independent British motorcycle designer and manufacturer. After World War II, Cheney joined the motorcycle dealers Archers of Aldershot as a mechanic . Cheney began racing motocross and became one Britain's best riders, along with his travelling companion Les Archer, who went on to become European champion . Following an accident he moved into bike preparation and design. He designed primarily motorcycle chassis and suspension systems.

  

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•  Edward D. Wood, Jr.

  

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•  Fred Singer

  Siegfried Frederick Singer (born 27 September 1924 in Vienna) is an American atmospheric physicist. Singer is Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia, specializing in planetary science, global warming, ozone depletion, and other global environmental issues.

  

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•  George H. W. Bush

  George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. Bush was born in Massachusetts to Senator and New York Banker Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush postponed going to college and became the youngest naval aviator in the US Navy at the time.

  

  31.2%
  

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•  Jimmy Carter

  James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975, and was a peanut farmer and naval officer.

  

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•  James Clavell

  James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell (October 10, 1924 – September 7, 1994) was a British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love.

  

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•  Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene

  Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE or sometimes shortened to UHMW), also known as high-modulus polyethylene (HMPE) or high-performance polyethylene (HPPE), is a subset of the thermoplastic polyethylene. It has extremely long chains, with molecular weight numbering in the millions, usually between 2 and 6 million. The longer chain serves to transfer load more effectively to the polymer backbone by strengthening intermolecular interactions.

  

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•  E350

  E350 or E-350 may be: E350 (food additive) Canon Inc. , camcorder Coyote Point Systems, load balancing computer server router Ford E-Series, van or minibus Mercedes-Benz E-Class, sedan or wagon Samsung Electronics, mobile phone Toshiba, Personal digital assistant (PDA)

  

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•  Eccellenza Sicily

  Eccellenza Sicily (known in its native tongue as Eccellenza Sicilia) is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs on the Isle of Sicily, Italy. It is competed amongst 32 teams, in two different groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also have the chance to gain promotion, they are entered into a national play-off which consists of two rounds.

  

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•  Beaufort, Jura

  Beaufort is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France.

  

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•  Callistemon pachyphyllus

  Callistemon pachyphyllus (Wallum Bottlebrush) is a shrub in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to the states of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. It grows up to 1.5 metres in height and has a dense, straggling habit. The leaves are 45 to 90 mm long and 3 to 9 mm wide with tips that become abruptly narrow. These are crowded together on the branchlets and are linear, subulate or terete. The flower spikes, which are crimson or rarely yellowish green, are produced in summer.

  

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