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•  Richard Somers

  Richard Somers (1778 or 1779–4 September 1804) was an officer of the United States Navy, killed during a daring assault on Tripoli. Born at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, he attended the University of Pennsylvania with future naval heroes Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart. He was appointed midshipman on 25 April 1797 and served in the West Indies during the Quasi-War with France on the frigate United States with Decatur and Stewart, a ship commanded by Captain John Barry.

  

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•  Te Ruki Kawiti

  Te Ruki Kawiti (1770s–1854) was a prominent Māori rangatira (chief). He and Hone Heke successfully fought the British in the Flagstaff War in 1845–46. Descended from Nukutawhiti and Rāhiri, he was born in the north of New Zealand into the Ngāti Hine hapu, one of the subtribes of Ngā Puhi. From his youth he was trained in leadership and warfare. He was present at the Battle of Moremonui in 1807 or 1808 when many Ngā Puhi were slaughtered by Ngāti Whātua.

  

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•  Thomas Hope (1769–1831)

  Thomas Hope (30 August 1769 – 3 February 1830/1831), was a Dutch and British merchant banker, author, philosopher and art collector, best known for his novel "Anastasius," a work which many experts considered a rival to the writings of Lord Byron. His sons included Henry Thomas Hope and Alexander Beresford Hope.

  

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•  William Bullock (collector)

  William Bullock (c. 1773 – 1849) was an English traveller, naturalist and antiquarian. Bullock began as a goldsmith and jeweller in Sheffield. He used his wealth to accumulate a large collection of artifacts, antiquities and stuffed animals. In the late 1790s Bullock founded a Museum of Natural Curiosities in the city, which moved to Liverpool in 1801.

  

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•  Frances Slocum

  Frances Slocum (Maconaquah, "The Little Bear") was an adopted member of the Miami tribe taken from her family home by the Lenape in Pennsylvania at the age of four and raised in what is now Indiana. Her burial site is a Miami Indian shrine near Peoria, Miami County, Indiana. Frances was part of a family of early Quaker settlers of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys. Her parents, Jonathan Slocum and Ruth Tripp, settled from Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

  

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•  William Moorcroft (explorer)

  William Moorcroft (1767 - 27 August 1825), English explorer, was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, the illegitimate son of Ann Moorcroft, daughter of a local farmer. While employed by the East India Company Moorcroft traveled extensively throughout the Himalayas, Tibet and Central Asia, eventually reaching Bukhara, in present day Uzbekistan.

  

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•  Justo Abaunza

  Justo Abaunza y Muñoz de Avilés was a Nicaraguan politician, and was twice temporary and acting 25th and 27th President (then called Supreme Director) of Nicaragua from 1 April to 5 May 1851 and again from 4 August to 11 November 1851. According to one source, Abaunza was born before 1778 and died after 1872. He was a relative of Enrique Bolaños, 82nd President of Nicaragua, as well as of both parents of his wife Lila T. Abaunza, First Lady of Nicaragua.

  

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•  William Allan (banker)

  William Allan JP (ca. 1770 – 11 July 1853) was a Canadian banker, businessman and politician. Allan was born at Moss, near Huntly, Scotland around 1770. He came to Canada around 1787 to work with Forsyth, Richardson and Company and settled at Niagara a year later. In 1795, he moved to York. In 1797, he opened a general store with Alexander Wood, later becoming sole owner. In 1800, Allan was named a justice of the peace in the Home District and, in 1801, became the postmaster at York.

  

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•  Delphine LaLaurie

  Delphine LaLaurie, also known as Madame LaLaurie (born Marie Delphine Macarty), was an American socialite and supposed serial killer, who according to legend helped torture, mutilate and kill nearly 100 black slaves.

  

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•  Andrei Sychra

  Andrei Osipovich Sychra (Sikhra, Sichra, in Russian Андрей Осипович Сихра Andrej Osipovič Sixra) (born 1773 in Vilnius; died November 21/December 3, 1850 in St Petersburg) was a Russian guitarist, composer and teacher, of Czech ancestry. Sychra holds a prominent position within Russia, where he is often referred to as the patriarch of the seven-string guitar, and also as its inventor, disputed though that may be.

  

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•  Carpool

  Carpooling (also known as car-sharing, ride-sharing, lift-sharing and covoiturage), is the shared use of a car by the driver and one or more passengers, usually for commuting. Carpooling arrangements and schemes involve varying degrees of formality and regularity. Formal carpool projects have been around in a structured form since the mid-1970s. Carpoolers use pool members' private cars, or a jointly hired vehicle, for private shared journeys.

  

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•  WCPE

  WCPE is a private classical music radio station broadcasting in the United States out of studios near Wake Forest, North Carolina. Broadcasting from Raleigh, North Carolina on 89.7 FM at 100,000 watts, the station went on the air July 17, 1978 and switched to a 24-hour classical music format in 1984. The "sister station", WZPE in Bath, NC, had obtained a construction permit from the FCC for a power increase to 4,500 watts.

  

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•  List of publications and periodicals devoted to Apple II

  There was a thriving industry devoted to the Apple II at one time, including: 8/16 A+ - Published by IDG A2-Central On Disk Apple Assembly Lines A.U.G.E. Apple User Group Europe Call-A.P.P.L.E. Still published as an E-Zine Compute! Apple Co-Op Spirit Published after A.P.P.L.E. Co-Op Ceased Business operations in 1990 returning the group to User Group Status.

  

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•  Alloza

  Alloza is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census, the municipality has a population of 691 inhabitants.

  

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