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  • would divert the emperor from the concubine née Xiao. Modern historians dispute this ... Then eventually, in November 655, the empress née Wang was demoted and Wu Zetian was ...
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  • Mary Jackson (née Winston, April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA ...
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  • was from a non-practicing Jewish family; his mother, née Alice Nimmo, was the daughter of Scottish immigrants and their children were raised as Christians. His grandfather was ...
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  • 1835, in Berlin, the son of Johann Jakob Baeyer and Eugenie née Hitzig. He came from a family distinguished both in literature and the natural sciences. His father, a lieutenant-general ...
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett) was born at Cohnadatia Hall near Durham, England in 1806, the daughter of Creole plantation owner Edward ...
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  • story of her great-great grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776-1852). Mary Anne Clarke, from 1803 to 1808, was mistress of Frederick Augustus, the Duke of York and Albany ...
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  • Joan Violet Robinson, née Maurice (October 31, 1903 – August 5, 1983) was a Keynesian economist, arguably the only great female economist born before 1940. She was well ...
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  • His father was a prosperous farmer while his mother, née Malissa Vandiver, was of more humble social origins. Malissa and her brother, Pendleton "Pen" Vandiver, were ...
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  • Mary Douglas Leakey (née Nicol) (February 6, 1913 – December 9, 1996) was a British physical anthropologist and the wife of Louis Leakey, famous for her discovery of Homo ...
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  • Baden-Powell was raised by his mother, Henrietta Grace Powell née Smyth (1824–1914 ... asp?mkey=mw83490 Olave St. Clair Baden-Powell (née Soames), Baroness Baden-Powell; Robert ...
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  • Orkneys, a petty officer in the Royal Navy, and Sarah née Sanders. His first book was A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich ...
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  • Kniberg in New York City, New York, the son of Minnie (née Solomon) and Bernard Kniberg, a handbag cutter. [http://www.filmreference.com/film/93/Alan-King.html Alan King Biography ...
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  • manager of a weaving mill, and his wife, Maria Pitman, née Davis (1784–1854). He attended the local grammar school, but left it when he was 13 years old, due to his fragile health ...
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  • Doris May Lessing CH, OBE (née Tayler; October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013) was a British writer, author of novels including The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook. ...
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  • He married Leia Maria Boutros-Ghali, née Leia Nadler, who was raised in an Egyptian Jewish family in Alexandria and converted to Roman Catholicism as a young woman. ...
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  • Upon her death, Tyutchev married Ernestina Dörnberg, née Countess von Pfeffel, who had been his mistress for six years and had a child by him. Neither of his wives understood ...
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  • Mendel Berlin, a timber merchant, and his wife Marie, née Volshonok. He spent his childhood in Riga, Latvia, and Saint Petersburg (then called Petrograd), and witnessed the Russian ...
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  • Hahn") and his wife Charlotte Hahn, née Giese (1845-1905). Together with ... together with his wife and assistant Ilse Hahn, née Pletz. They left a fourteen-year ...
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  • Melanie Klein (née Reisez) was born in Vienna, in 1882. Her father, Dr. Moriz Reisez, was a successful physician. He had rebelled against his family’s wishes to become ...
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  • On May 7, 1788, he married the widow Mary Pitt (née Baldwin) at St Laurence's Church, Upton in Slough. His sister Caroline then moved to separate lodgings, but continued ...
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