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  • 31Demetrius Vikelas — 1st President of the International Olympic Committee In office 1894–1896 Succeeded by Pierre de Coubertin …

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  • 32Gaspare Diziani — (1689 – 17 August, 1767) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque or Roccoco period, active mainly in the Veneto but also in Dresden and Munich. BiographyHis earliest training was in his native town of Belluno with Antonio Lazzarini, then moved …

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  • 33Dreyfus, Alfred — (1859–1935)    The French officer in the Dreyfus Affair. Born into a middle class assimilated family in Alsace, Dreyfus took up a military career, and was commissioned as an artillery officer. After completing a staff course, he was posted to the …

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  • 34major — Adjective: Greater; more powerful; more important; more eminent. Noun: A military officer, ranking immediately below a lieutenant colonel and immediately above a captain …

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  • 35Galba — Infobox Emperor name = Galba title = Emperor of the Roman Empire full name = Servius Sulpicius Galba caption = Coin featuring Galba reign = 8 June, 68 – 15 January, 69 predecessor = Nero successor = Otho spouse 1 = Poppea Sabina spouse 2 =… …

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  • 36Firmilian — Infobox Saint name=Firmilian birth date= death date= ca. 269 feast day=28 October venerated in=Eastern Orthodox Church imagesize= caption= birth place= death place=Tarsus [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06080b.htm] titles= Bishop of Caesarea… …

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  • 37De Jussieu — De Jussieu, the name of a French family which came into prominence towards the close of the sixteenth century, and was known for a century and a half for the botanists it produced. The following are its more eminent members: Antoine de Jussieu… …

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  • 38Rolim Amaro — Captain Rolim Adolfo Amaro (born September 15, 1942 at 4:00 PM in Pereira Barreto, state of São Paulo), known as Comandante Rolim, was a Brazilian pilot and airline owner and founder of TAM Airlines.At 21 he became a pilot for a new regional… …

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  • 39Richard Partridge — FRS, FRCS (19 January 1805; Ross on Wye, Herefordshire – 25 March 1873; London) was a British surgeon. Although he became President of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, he is best known for his part …

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  • 40giant — giantlike, adj. /juy euhnt/, n. 1. (in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc. 2. a person or thing of unusually great size, power, importance, etc.; major figure; legend: a giant in her field; an intellectual giant …

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