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  • John Trumbull (June 6, 1756 – November 10, 1843) was an American ... mother was Faith Robinson, the daughter of John Robinson, a Pilgrim. He entered ...
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  • John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems ...
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  • Milton, John [[Image:John Milton - Project Gutenberg eText 13619.jpg|thumbnail ...
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  • John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in ...
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  • John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, actor and sometime screenwriter. He is best known for ...
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  • John Galsworthy (August 14, 1867 – January 31, 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921 ...
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  • John Smyth (1570 – c. August 28, 1612) was co-founder, with Thomas ... Anglican doctrine."Short Biography of John Smyth," The Reformed ...
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  • The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe from the twelfth through the seventeenth centuries, told of a Christian ...
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  • | Name = John Cage | Img = John Cage (1988).jpg | Background ...
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  • ventures fail while those of his elder son, John August Sutter, Jr., prospered. ... In the United States, Suter changed his name to John Augustus Sutter ...
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  • John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized ...
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  • John Wycliffe (also Wyclif, Wycliff, or Wickliffe) (c.1320 – December 31, 1384), an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the ...
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  • John Adair (January 9, 1757 – May 19, 1840) was an American pioneer, soldier, and statesman. He was the seventh governor of Kentucky and represented ...
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  • John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio ...
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  • [[Image:John Calvin - Young.jpg|right|thumb|Young John Calvin]] John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a prominent Christian ...
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  • John Knox (1514?–1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines following ...
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  • John Taverner (around 1490 – October 18, 1545) is regarded as the ... John Taverner is known to have settled eventually in Boston, Lincolnshire ...
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  • Sir Elton John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on March 25, 1947, is an English singer, composer, and pianist. John has been one of the dominant ...
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  • John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) All dates in the article are New Style (unless otherwise stated). The ...
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  • John Dryden (August 9, 1631 – May 12, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, and playwright who dominated the literary life ...
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  • The Third Epistle of John (also referred to as 3 John) is a book of the New Testament. It is the sixty-fourth book of the Christian Bible—its ...
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  • The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the shortest book of the Bible, ...
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  • John Field (July 26, 1782 – January 23, 1837) was an Irish composer and pianist. The Classical era at the time of John Field highlighted the ...
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  • John Taverner (around 1490 – October 18, 1545) is regarded as the ... John Taverner is known to have settled eventually in Boston, Lincolnshire ...
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  • sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers (some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles) killed ...
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  • John of Patmos is the name given to the author of the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse of John) in the New Testament. According to the text, the ...
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  • Swanton, John R. John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American ...
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  • Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas, "the golden speaker") (c. 676 – December 5, 749) was a Syrian ...
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  • John Blow (1649 – October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant English composer of his time. ...
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  • John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America, from ...
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  • John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of Zebedee, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Christian tradition identifies ...
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  • The First Epistle of John is a book of the Bible New Testament, the fourth of the "catholic" or general epistles. It was probably written ...
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  • Clark, John Maurice John Maurice Clark (November 30, 1884 – June 27, 1963) was an American ...
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  • Saint John Macías, (Spanish San Juan Macias alt. sp Massias) (March 2, 1585 - September 16, 1645), was a Spanish Dominican religious laybrother ...
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