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  • Musaeum Tradescantianum

    Musaeum Tradescantianum

    You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (June 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions.Consider adding a topic to this templ

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  • Robert Agranoff

    Robert Agranoff

    Robert Agranoff (May 25, 1936 – November 14, 2019) was an American political scientist and public administration scholar and author. A Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Public

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  • Parallel Lives

    Parallel Lives

    The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι , Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian

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  • Wilhelm Grimm

    Wilhelm Grimm

    Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers

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  • Edwin Lutyens

    Edwin Lutyens

    Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA (/ˈ l ʌ t j ə n z / LUT -yənz; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural style

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  • Mersenne prime

    Mersenne prime

    In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number of the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n . They are named after Marin Mersen

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  • Pyrrhic War

    Pyrrhic War

    This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article relies excessively on references to pri

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  • Walter Brierley

    Walter Brierley

    Walter Henry Brierley (1862–1926) was a York architect who practised in the city for 40 years. He is known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens" or the "Lutyens of the North". He is also credited with being a

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  • Andrei Sakharov

    Andrei Sakharov

    Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров ; 21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizi

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  • Vittorio Prodi

    Vittorio Prodi

    Vittorio Prodi (19 May 1937 – 29 July 2023) was an Italian politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. He was a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialis

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