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Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronome...

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Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philo...

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Chan Kong-sang born 7 April 1954 known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kongese martial arti...

Aaron Josef Hernandez (November 6, 1989 – April 19, 2017) was a convicted murderer and American foot...

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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian...

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between ...

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