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  • Thumbnail for Steely Dan
    Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals)...
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    Lionel Jay Stander (January 11, 1908 – November 30, 1994) was an American actor, activist, and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. He had an...
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  • The phrase "power behind the throne" refers to a person or group that informally exercises the real power of a high-ranking office, such as a head of state...
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    Jayadewa or Jayadeva (Sanskrit: जयदेव ; full title: Hwan Nāyaka tuhan Pailah Jayadewa) was the name of the Lord Minister of Pailah at the time that the...
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    Hintsa ka Khawuta (1780 – 12 May 1835), also known as Great or King Hintsa, was the king of the Xhosa Kingdom, founded by his great ancestor, King Tshawe...
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  • Guy Lee Hovis, Jr. (born September 24, 1941), is an American singer, who, along with his former wife, Ralna English, a native of West Texas, was one of...
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  • Luis de Torres (died 1493) was Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage to America. De Torres was a converso, a Jewish person who was forced...
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  • George White (1648 – after 1707) was an English merchant and co-founder of the reformed East India Company. White was born in Bristol, England, at the...
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  • Thumbnail for Stabilizers (band)
    Stabilizers were an American pop/rock duo from Erie, Pennsylvania, founded in the mid-1980s by musicians Dave Christenson (lead vocals) and England-born...
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    Bow Thayer is an American songwriter, guitarist, and banjoist and the founder of the Tweed River Music Festival. His career spans over two decades with...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Occitans
    This is a non-exhaustive list of people who were born in the Occitania historical territory, or notable people from other regions of France or Europe with...
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