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•  John Ambrose Fleming

  Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He also invented the right-hand rule, used in mathematics and electronics. He was born the eldest of seven children of James Fleming DD (died 1879), a Congregational minister, and his wife, Mary Ann, at Lancaster, Lancashire and baptized on 11 February 1850.

  

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•  August Strindberg

  Johan August Strindberg (was a Swedish playwright and writer. He is arguably the most influential of all Swedish authors and is considered to be the "father of modern literature" in Sweden. He is one of the most influential Scandinavian authors, along with Knut Hamsun, Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard, Hans Christian Andersen and Karen Blixen. Strindberg is known as one of the developers of modern theatre. His work is of two major literary styles, Naturalism and Expressionism.

  

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•  Ivan Pavlov

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian, and later Soviet, physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov is widely known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning.

  

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•  Basil Zaharoff

  Basil Zaharoff, GCB, GBE, born Basileios Zacharias, was a Greek-Turkish-born French arms trader and financier of Greek heritage, the director and chairman of the Vickers munitions firm during World War I.

  

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•  Robert M. Thompson

  Robert Means Thompson (2 March 1849 - 5 September 1930) was a United States Navy officer. He was born in Corsica, Pennsylvania. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy on 30 July 1864. Graduating tenth in the class of 1868, Thompson first went to sea in Contoocook in the West Indian Squadron. He later served in Franklin, Richmond, and Guard of the Mediterranean Squadron; as well as in Wachusett and at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island.

  

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•  Jacob Riis

  Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), was a Danish American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He helped with the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller.

  

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•  Edmund Gosse

  Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic; the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.

  

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•  William Osler

  Sir William Osler, M.D. ,C.M. , 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician. (The "o" in "Osler" is pronounced like the "o" in "go". ) He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine and described as the Father of Modern Medicine. Osler was a pathologist, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, and renowned practical joker.

  

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•  Edmund Barton

  Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia. Barton's greatest contribution to Australian history was his management of the federation movement through the 1890s. Elected at the inaugural 1901 federal election, Barton resigned from the position of Prime Minister of Australia in 1903 and became a judge of Australia's High Court.

  

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•  Carl Fredrik Hill

  Carl Fredrik Hill (31 May 1849 - 22 February 1911) was a Swedish painter. Carl Fredrik Hill’s work has exercised a crucial impact on modern 20th-century art.

  

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•  Valenza

  Valenza is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km east of Turin and about 11 km north of Alessandria.

  

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•  City guard

  City guard, city watch, town guard or town watch was a law enforcement formation found in some countries and historical periods, usually subordinate to the local municipal government. Historically many cities had their own guard formations, which doubled as police and military force in times of need. With the unification of laws and centralization of state power, such formations became increasingly incorporated into state-run police force.

  

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•  Duane Milne

  Duane Milne is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 167th legislative district. He was first elected in 2006. Milne attended the College of William and Mary and earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Delaware. He is a professor of Political Science at West Chester University and has written academic papers on federalism and public sector management.

  

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•  Blood Ravens

  

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•  EastNaz

  

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