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Featured Article: Lie Kim Hok

Lie, c. 1900

Lie Kim Hok (November 1, 1853 – May 6, 1912) was a peranakan Chinese teacher, writer, and social worker active in the Dutch East Indies and styled the "father of Chinese Malay literature". Lie is considered influential to the colony's journalism, linguistics, and literature, and is best remembered for his literary works. Several of his writings were printed multiple times, and Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari was adapted for the stage and screen.

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Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was introduced to acting after fleeing New York City following a number of legal difficulties and eventually traveling to San Francisco and meeting actor Norman Kerry, who urged him to pursue a cinema career. Valentino challenged the typical depiction of masculinity, the All American, fair, light-eyed man. His ominous image led journalists to regularly call his masculinity (and his sexuality) into question. In the 1920s, Valentino was known as a Latin sex symbol. Women loved him and thought him the epitome of romance.

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The First Persian Gulf War was between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran and lasted from September 1980 until August 1988 (source: Iran-Iraq War)

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