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Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper 1791-1883, American inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist, b. New York City. After achieving success in the glue business, Cooper, with two partners, erected (1829) the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore. There he constructed the Tom Thumb, one of the earliest locomotives built in... Read more |
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Rafael Carrera
Rafael Carrera , 1814-65, president of Guatemala, a caudillo. He led the revolution against the anticlerical liberal government of Guatemala, and his ultimate success in 1840 helped to destroy the Central American Federation. Illiterate and of mixed blood, he received unquestioned support from the... Read more |
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Fidel Valdez Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos , 1928-, Philippine general and politician, president of the Philippines (1992-98), b. Lingayen. A career army officer, he became deputy chief of staff of the armed forces in 1981 and chief of staff in 1986. When Corazon Aquino challenged Ferdinand Marcos 's "victory" in... Read more |
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Mauno Henrik Koivisto
Koivisto, Mauno (b. 25 Nov. 1923). Finnish President 1982–91 Born in Turku, the Social Democrat (from 1947) became a successful banker, which prepared him for the post of Minister of Finance, 1966–7, and 1972. In this position, and as President of the Bank of Finland (1968–82),... Read more |
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser , 1871-1945, American novelist, b. Terre Haute, Ind. A pioneer of naturalism in American literature, Dreiser wrote novels reflecting his mechanistic view of life, a concept that held humanity as the victim of such ungovernable forces as economics, biology, society, and even chance.... Read more |
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Lanzhou
Lanzhou or Lanchow , city (1994 est. pop. 1,295,600), capital of Gansu prov., W China, on the Huang He (Yellow River) at its confluence with the Wei. It is a rail, highway, and air hub and the junction point to remote Xinjiang in extreme NW China. Lanzhou is linked by rail to Beijing and to the... Read more |
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Sport: Ex skippers hail PFF Chief for AFC Legal Committee Chairman post.
...Federation (PFF)s President Makhdoom Syed Faisal...Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Nepal, Palestine...Project and they will meet success as they are concentrating...Transfer Window. PFF President really worked indefatigably...Faisal Saleh Hayat, ... |