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Gen. Charles Willoughby     Intelligence Chief for MacArthur
    
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Brigham Young, leader of the Church of the Latter Day Saints for 29 years.




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Konrad Zuse, inventor of the first programmable computer.




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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 - 1938).
Turkish politician. Founder and first president of modern Turkey.




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Carl Bernstein     Washington reporter who broke Watergate with Bob Woodward

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Callimachus

Scholar at the Library of Alexandria.




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Ken Dahlberg     Businessman caught-up in the Watergate scandal



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Elijah.
Biblical character. Hebrew Prophet.


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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

U.S. inventor, polymath and Founding Father


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Bill Greer     Secret Service agent driving JFK's limo during assassination



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Kaspar Hauser (1812? - 1833).
An enigma yet to be solved.


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Innocentius III (1160/61-1216)

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Kaspar Hauser (1812? - 1833).
An enigma yet to be solved.



Wow, just read up on his story. Crazy stuff.

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George Junkin

Presbyterian minister and president of several American colleges and universities. 


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Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944).
Russian painter.






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Joseph Luns (1911-2002)

Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs 1952-1971
Secretary General of NATO 1971-1984


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W. A. Mozart (1756 - 1791).


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Karl Wilhelm Naundorff (c. 1785-1845)

German impostor who claimed to be Louis XVII of France


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Alton Ochsner     mysterious New Orleans anticommunist doctor with ties to the radical right-wing.



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Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou a.k.a Vangelis

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