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•  Ayn Rand

  Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand immigrated to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936.

  

  37.8%
  

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•  Albert Speer

  Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for crimes of the Nazi regime.

  

  44.4%
  

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•  Bob Wills

  James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called the King of Western Swing by his fans.

  

  30.6%
  

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•  Dalton Trumbo

  Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.

  

  29.4%
  

  35.3%
  

  35.3%
  
•  Elias Canetti

  Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

  

  50.0%
  

  29.4%
  

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•  Felix Bloch

  Felix Bloch (October 23, 1905 – September 10, 1983) was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the U.S.

  

  34.2%
  

  34.2%
  

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•  Howard Hughes

  Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained prominence from the late 1920s as a maverick film producer, making big-budget and often controversial films like Hell's Angels, Scarface and The Outlaw.

  

  31.3%
  

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•  Herman Charles Bosman

  Herman Charles Bosman (February 3, 1905 – October 14, 1951) is the South African writer widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short story writer. He studied the works of Edgar Alan Poe and Mark Twain, and developed a style emphasizing the use of irony. His English-language works utilize primarily Afrikaner characters and point to the many contradictions of Afrikaner society in the first half of the twentieth century.

  

  37.5%
  

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•  Isaac Klein

  Isaac Klein (1905-1979) was a prominent rabbi and halakhic authority within Conservative Judaism.

  

  35.2%
  

  29.6%
  

  35.2%
  
•  Joseph Cotten

  Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor of stage and film. He is best remembered for his association with Orson Welles, which led to appearances in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay, and The Third Man (1949). Cotten first achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair.

  

  36.4%
  

  33.3%
  

  30.3%
  

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•  Rhizanthella slateri

  Rhizanthella slateri, or the Eastern Underground Orchid, is an epiparasitic orchid with fleshy underground stem to 15 cm long and 15 mm diameter. A synonym is Cryptanthemis slateri Rupp (1932). Rhizanthella slateri ranges from southeastern Queensland to the south coast of New South Wales. In NSW, it is currently only known from fewer than 10 locations, including near Bulahdelah, the Watagan Mountains, the Blue Mountains, Wiseman's Ferry area, Agnes Banks and near Nowra.

  

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•  Álvaro García Linera

  Álvaro Marcelo García Linera (born October 19, 1962) is a Bolivian politician and current Vice President. He was born in Cochabamba and graduated from San Agustín High School. Then, he studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and became a mathematician.

  

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•  Capital punishment in Germany

  Capital punishment was abolished in West Germany in 1949 and East Germany in 1987

  

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•  Temple of Kalabsha

  The Temple of Kalabsha (also Temple of Mandulis) is a Ancient Egyptian temple that was originally located at Bab al-Kalabsha (Gate of Kalabsha), approximately 50 kilometers south of Aswan. The temple was situated on the west bank of the Nile River, in Nubia and was originally built around 30 BC during the early Roman era. While the temple was constructed in Augustus's reign, it was never finished. The temple was a tribute to Mandulis (Merul), a Lower Nubian sun god.

  

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•  Thomas Clayton Wolfe

  

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