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•  Brion Gysin

  Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 – July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. He is best known for his rediscovery of the cut-up technique, used by William S. Burroughs. With Ian Somerville he invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by Japanese and Arabic scripts.

  

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•  Claude Shannon

  Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electronic engineer and mathematician, is known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948.

  

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•  Charles F. Hockett

  Charles Francis Hockett (January 17, 1916 – November 3, 2000) was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics. He represents the post-Bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as "distributionalism" or "taxonomic structuralism". His academic career spanned over half a century in Cornell and Rice universities.

  

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•  Francis Crick

  Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004), was a British molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, together with James D. Watson. He, James D.

  

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•  Forrest J Ackerman

  Forrest J Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan. He was, for over seven decades, one of science fiction's staunchest spokesmen and promoters. Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

  

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•  Georg Henrik von Wright

  Georg Henrik von Wright (14 June 1916 – 16 June 2003) was a Finnish philosopher, who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge. He published in English, Finnish, German, and in his mother tongue Swedish. He was of Finnish and of 17th-century Scottish descent. Von Wright's writings come under two broad categories. The first is analytic philosophy and philosophical logic in the Anglo-American vein.

  

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•  Gough Whitlam

  Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam, is a former Australian politician, and the 21st Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975. He is the only Prime Minister to be dismissed by a Governor-General using reserve powers, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam entered Federal Parliament in 1952, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

  

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•  Herbert Simon

  Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916– February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, economist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science. With almost a thousand very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century.

  

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•  Masaki Kobayashi

  Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaaki, February 14, 1916–October 4, 1996) was a Japanese director. Among his films is Kwaidan (1965), a collection of four ghost stories drawn from by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending. Kobayashi also directed The Human Condition, a trilogy on the effects of World War II on a Japanese pacifist and socialist. The total length of the films is over 9 hours. Other notable films include Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967).

  

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•  François Mitterrand

  François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist President of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of state since 1957. He is to date the only member of the Socialist Party to be elected as the President of France.

  

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•  Reef triggerfish

  Humuhumunukunukuāpuaa redirects here. For the Rhinecanthus aculeatus of the same name, see Lagoon triggerfish. For the High School Musical song, see Humuhumunukunukuapua'a (song) The reef, rectangular, or wedge-tail triggerfish, also known by its Hawaiian name, humu­humu­nuku­nuku­āpuaʻa, also spelled Humuhumunukunukuapua'a' or just humuhumu for short; meaning "triggerfish with a snout like a pig"), is one of several species of triggerfish.

  

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•  Model building

  Model building as a hobby involves the creation of models either from kits or from materials and components acquired by the builder.

  

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•  Abha

  Abha is the capital of Asir province in Saudi Arabia. It is situated at 2,200 metres (7,200 ft) above sea level in the fertile mountains of south-western Saudi Arabia near the National Park of Asir. Its mild climate makes it a popular tourist destination for Saudis. According to 2004 census figures it has a population of 201,912 with an estimate of 252,126 for 2009.

  

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•  American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense

  American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense Case No: 04-CV-4151 (ACLU v. DoD), is a case in United States Federal Court wherein the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency under the Freedom of Information Act for the release of still-secret materials —specifically those related to abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq, during the U.S. military Occupation of Iraq.

  

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•  The Biggest Douche in the Universe

  "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" is the 94th episode of the 6th season of the Comedy Central animated series South Park. It was first broadcast on November 27, 2002 and was the last in a mini-arc depicting Cartman being occasionally possessed by Kenny. The episode is centered around the alleged psychic John Edward, who the entire crew of South Park Studios agreed to be "the biggest douche in the universe."

  

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