Lara Logan (born March 29, 1971) is a television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She is currently the Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News, filing reports for the CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes and the CBS Radio Network....
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Ahmed Ouyahia (Arabic: أحمد أويحيى) (born July 2, 1952) is an Algerian politician who has been Prime Minister of Algeria since June 2008. He was previously Prime Minister from 1995 to 1998 and from 2003 to 2006....
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Mervyn Allister King (born March 30, 1948) is Governor of the Bank of England. He succeeded Sir Edward George on June 30, 2003....
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Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was one of the commanders of the New Model ...
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua(born 1951) is the 2nd President of Nigeria's Fourth Republic. He served as governor of Katsina State in northern Nigeria from May 29, 1999 to May 28, 2007. He was declared the winner of the controversial Nigerian presidential election held on April 21, 2007, and was sworn in on ...
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Marilynne Robinson (born 1943) is an American author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping (see 1980 in literature) won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Gilead (see 2004 in literature), was acclaimed by critics and ...
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N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en (pronounced /ɛn/)....
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Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby; 19 September 1949) is an English supermodel, actress, and singer, now also known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson. A 1960s model known for her large eyes, long eyelashes, and thin build, she is regarded as one of the most famous models of all time. Twiggy went on to ...
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Syngman Rhee or Yi Seungman (March 26, 1875 – July 19, 1965) was the first president of South Korea. His presidency, from August 1948 to April 1960, remains controversial, affected by Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere. Rhee was regarded as an anti-Communist and a strongman, ...
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Yashwant Sinha (born November 6, 1937, Patna) is an Indian politician and a former finance minister of India (March 1998 - July 2002) and foreign minister (July 2002 - May 2004) in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet. He is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party....
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