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•  Peter Minuit

  Peter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit (1580 – August 5, 1638) was a Walloon from Wesel, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Clèves. He was the Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1633, and he founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638.

  

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•  Feodor II of Russia

  Fyodor II Borisovich Godunov of Russia (1589 - 10 June/20 June 1605) was a tsar of Russia (1605) during the Time of Troubles. He was born in Moscow, the son and successor to Boris Godunov. His mother Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya was one of the daughters of Malyuta Skuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible.

  

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•  Ivan Gundulić

  Ivan (Dživo) Franov Gundulić is the most celebrated Croatian Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa. His work embodies central characteristics of Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation: religious fervor, insistence on "vanity of this world" and zeal in opposition to "infidels.

  

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•  Antonio de León Pinelo

  Antonio de León Pinelo was a Spanish-colonial historian (1589 – 1660). Pinelo was born in Cordova de Tucuman, and educated in the College of the Jesuits of Lima. He travelled to Spain in 1612 and became attorney of the council of the Indies. Then, he became judge of the tribunal of La Contratacion in Seville, succeeding Gil Gonzalez Davila in 1658 in the post of historian of the Indies. He died in Seville.

  

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•  Jérôme Bignon

  Jérôme Bignon (1589–1656) was a French lawyer born in Paris. His family was originating from the western part of France and came to Paris at the beginning of the sixteen century. He was uncommonly precocious, and under his father's tuition had acquired an immense mass of knowledge before he was ten years of age. In 1600 was published a work by him entitled Choréographie, ou description de la Terre Sainte.

  

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•  Adriaen van de Venne

  Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires and a versifier.

  

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•  Abatai

  Abatai, (July 27, 1589 - May 10, 1646), was a Manchu General. An inconsistent and dissolute malcontent, he nevertheless showed considerable ability as a commander and administrator. Born on July 27, 1589, he was the seventh son of Nurhachi. He led Manchu forces against the tribes of Weji in 1611 and Jarut in 1623. He was disciplined for abandoning his colleagues during a raid into China in 1629 and was also held responsible for the loss of Yongping and other cities from 1629 to 1630.

  

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•  4th Dalai Lama

  Yonten Gyatso or Yon-tan-rgya-mtsho (1589–1617) was the 4th Dalai Lama, born in Mongolia on the 30th day of the 12th month of the Earth-Ox year of the Tibetan calendar. (but other sources say he was born in the 1st month of the Earth Ox Year).

  

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•  Gabriel Báthory

  Gabriel Báthory was Prince of Transylvania from 1608 to his death in 1613.

  

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•  Esteban Manuel de Villegas

  Esteban Manuel de Villegas was a 17th century Spanish poet.

  

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•  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

  

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•  Air Force Falcons football

  The Air Force Falcons are the college football team from the United States Air Force Academy, located just outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The team is a mid-major program that competes in Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I and the Mountain West Conference.

  

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•  Automated Aerial Refueling

  Automated Aerial Refueling refers to the Air Force Research Laboratory program AAR. The AAR Program is researching methods for autonomus refueling of manned and unmanned aircraft. The program was started in 2004 at the AFRL Air Vehicles Directorate. The initial program was the evaluation of technologies that could be used for AAR. The key new concept is the use of precision GPS. The AAR program has since held several flight tests. The picture DDD is from the first flight test in 2005.

  

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•  Charles Beslay

  Charles Victor Beslay was the oldest member of the Paris Commune. An engineer, he was councillor general of Morbihan in 1830. Later, in Paris, he founded a steam machine factory, and tried to apply the ideas of his friend Proudhon on the association of capital to work. After the 1848 Revolution the provisional government named him Commissioner of the Republic in Morbihan. He was part of the Constituent Assembly where he suppressed the insurgents of the insurgency of June 1848.

  

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