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•  Cecilia Beaux

  Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent. She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France. Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.

  

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•  Ettore Ximenes

  Ettore Ximenes (April 11, 1855, Palermo – December 20, 1926, Rome) was an Italian sculptor of mostly religious and mythological subjects. There are several significant works by Ximenes in the United States. These include: Giovanni da Verrazzano, Battery Park, Manhattan, New York, 1909 Dante Alighieri in Dante Park at Lincoln Center, New York City and Meridian Hill Park, Washington D.C. - castings of the same work, 1921

  

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•  Paul Ehrlich

  Paul Ehrlich (14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus". He coined the term chemotherapy and popularized the concept of a magic bullet.

  

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•  Percival Lowell

  Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. The choice of the name Pluto and its symbol were partly influenced by his initials PL.

  

  26.7%
  

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•  William Seward Burroughs I

  William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York. William Seward Burroughs was a son of a mechanic, and he worked with machines while growing up. While he was still a small boy, his parents moved to Auburn, New York, where he and his brothers were educated in the public schools.

  

  23.1%
  

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•  Eugene V. Debs

  Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as candidate for President of the United States as a member of the Social Democratic Party in 1900. Later he was a presidential candidate as a member of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920.

  

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•  William Friese-Greene

  William Friese-Greene (September 7, 1855 – May 5, 1921) (born William Edward Green) was a portrait photographer and prolific inventor. He is principally known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures and is credited by some as the inventor of cinematography.

  

  27.3%
  

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•  James S. Sherman

  James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States. He was a member of the Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families.

  

  27.3%
  

  45.5%
  

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•  Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent

  Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent KG, PC (1 June 1855 – 18 May 1947), known as Lord Edmund Talbot between 1876 and 1921, was a British Conservative politician and the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

  

  25.0%
  

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  41.7%
  
•  John Browning

  John Moses Browning (January 21 or January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world. He is the most important figure in the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms and is credited with 128 gun patents—his first was granted October 7, 1879.

  

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•  Kālidāsa

  Kālidāsa was a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language. His floruit cannot be dated with precision, but most likely falls within the Gupta period, probably in the 4th or 5th century or 6th century. His place in Sanskrit literature is akin to that of Shakespeare in English. His plays and poetry are primarily based on Hindu mythology and philosophy.

  

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•  Desktop search

  Desktop search is the name for the field of search tools which search the contents of a user's own computer files, rather than searching the Internet. These tools are designed to find information on the user's PC, including web browser histories, e-mail archives, text documents, sound files, images and video.

  

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•  2Pac Live

  2Pac Live is an album by rapper Tupac Shakur. It was released on August 6, 2004 by Koch Records and is Shakur's first ever live album.

  

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