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•  Arne Kaijser

  Arne Kaijser (born 1950) is a professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the head of the university's department of History of science and technology. Kaijser has published two books in Swedish: Stadens ljus. Etableringen av de första svenska gasverken and I fädrens spår. Den svenska infrastrukturens historiska utveckling och framtida utmaningar, and has co-edited several anthologies.

  

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•  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Bjarne Stroustrup is a computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language. He is currently Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at the Texas A&M University. Stroustrup began developing C++ in 1979 (then called "C with Classes"), and, in his own words, "invented C++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation...

  

  48.5%
  

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•  Goran Bregović

  Goran Bregović (born 22 March 1950) is a Bosnian-born musician and one of the most internationally known modern composers of the Balkans. He currently lives in Belgrade, Serbia, where he settled down after the Yugoslav Wars. Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora. He rose to fame playing guitar with his rock band Bijelo dugme. Among his better known scores are Emir Kusturica’s films.

  

  23.1%
  

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•  John Sayles

  John Thomas Sayles (born 28 September 1950) is an American independent film director and screenwriter.

  

  31.0%
  

  42.3%
  

  26.8%
  
•  James Blaylock

  James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. He was born in Long Beach, California; studied English at California State University, Fullerton, receiving an M.A. in 1974; and lives in Orange, California, teaching creative writing at Chapman University.

  

  29.0%
  

  38.7%
  

  32.3%
  
•  Jay Leno

  James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian and television host. From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. , also on NBC. After The Jay Leno Show was cancelled in January 2010 amid a host controversy, Leno returned to host The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 1, 2010.

  

  24.4%
  

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  40.0%
  
•  Louis Freeh

  Louis Joseph Freeh (born January 6, 1950) was the 10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving from September 1993 to June 2001. Freeh began his career as an agent of the FBI, and was later an assistant United States Attorney and a United States district court judge, the position he held when appointed FBI director. He is now a lawyer and consultant in the private sector. He acquired Italian citizenship on October 23, 2009

  

  30.8%
  

  36.5%
  

  32.7%
  
•  Patricia Soltysik

  Patricia "Mizmoon" Monique Soltysik was one of the founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

  

  55.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Steve Wozniak

  Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. Wozniak has several nicknames, including "The Woz", "Wonderful Wizard of Woz" and "iWoz" (a reference to the ubiquitous naming scheme for Apple products).

  

  22.0%
  

  39.0%
  

  39.0%
  
•  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Stephen R. Lawhead, born July 2, 1950 (1950-07-02) (age 59), is a best-selling American writer known for his works of fantasy, science fiction, and more recently, historical fiction, particularly Celtic historical fiction. He has written over 24 novels and numerous children's and non-fiction books.

  

  38.5%
  

  23.1%
  

  38.5%
  

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•  Copa America 1995

  

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•  South Morningside Primary School

  

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•  Italians in Britain

  

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•  Condictio indebiti

  The condictio indebiti is an action in civil (Roman) law whereby a plaintiff may recover what he has paid the defendant by mistake. This action does not lie, 1. if the sum was due ex aequitate, or by a natural obligation; 2. if he who made the payment knew that nothing was due, for qui consulto dat quod non debetat, praesumitur donare. The action is extant in civil (Roman) or hybrid law regimes, e.g. South Africa and Scotland .

  

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