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Educational Institution, College/UniversityWittenberg University, located in Springfield, Ohio, is a private, four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The college was founded in 1842 by Ezra Keller in Wooster, Ohio, and moved three years later to its present...
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Educational Institution, College/University, Employer, Governing Body of Protected Sites, Architectural structure owner, Tagged Topic, Organization founderThe University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a coeducation public research university in the state of Michigan. The university was founded in 1817 in Detroit, about 20 years before the territory of Michigan officially became a state,...
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Educational Institution, College/University, Employer, Newspaper OwnerThe University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a doctoral/research university located in Austin, Texas. It is the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. The main campus is located less than...
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Santiago Calatrava • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology • 1975 • Civil Engineering • On the Foldability of Space FramesPerson, Architect, Visual Artist, Award WinnerSantiago Calatrava Valls (born July 28, 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Film actor, Film story contributor, Adoptive Parent, Influence Node, Fictional Character Creator, Organization member, Book SubjectKurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 – April 11 2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American novel known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). Kurt...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Film actor, Film story contributor, Adoptive Parent, Influence Node, Fictional Character Creator, Organization member, Book SubjectKurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 – April 11 2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American novel known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). Kurt...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Film actor, Film story contributor, Adoptive Parent, Influence Node, Fictional Character Creator, Organization member, Book SubjectKurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 – April 11 2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American novel known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). Kurt...
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Person, Architect, Deceased PersonRichard Morris Hunt (October 31 1827 - July 31, 1895) was a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture. Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, Hunt was the son of Jane Maria Leavitt, born to an influential family of Suffield, Connecticut, and Hon. Jonathan...
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Person, TV Actor, Film actorMaren Kawehilani Jensen (September 23, 1956, Arcadia, California) is an American actress best known for portraying Athena in the 1970s television series Battlestar Galactica. She was raised in Glendale where she attended Herbert Hoover High School from 1971 to 1974. ...
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Person, Film actor, TV ActorPatrick Macnee (born 6 February 1922) is an English-born actor, best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the series The Avengers Macnee, an only child, was born Daniel Patrick Macnee in Paddington, London , the son of Dorothea Mary (née Henry) and...
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Person, Film actor, Film producer, Film writer, Award NomineeThomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), more commonly known as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden...
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Person, Visual Artist, Deceased Person, Art Subject, Influence NodeEgon Schiele (June 12 1890 – October 31 1918) (, approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austria painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's body of work is noted for the intensity and the large number of self...
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PersonJon Bridgman is an American historian and a professor emeritus of the University of Washington. Bridgman, a graduate of Stanford University, who received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1961 spent his entire teaching career at the University of Washington....
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Person, PoliticianJon B. Erpenbach (born January 28, 1961) is an American politician. Erpenbach, who is a member of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has been serving since 1998 as as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate. He represents the state's twenty-seventh senate district. ...
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Person, Film actor, Deceased Person, Theater Actor, Award NomineeFranchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor. He was born Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the president of the Carborundum Company, and his wife, Gertrude Van...
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Person, Computer Designer, Author, Computer Scientist, Musical Artist, Board Member, Company Founder, Influence Node, Inventor, Lyricist, ComposerWilliam Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis...
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Person, Film actor, Film producer, TV Actor, Musical ArtistSamuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having...
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Person, Film actor, Film director, Film producer, TV Actor, Award Winner, Influence Node, Award NomineeDenzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28 1954) is an American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter,...
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PersonClare Selgin Wolfowitz (born November 1945) is an expert on Indonesia anthropology. She currently works at the IRIS center at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Governance Institutions Group, primarily on its projects in Indonesia and with the Programs and...
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PersonNiall Mellon grew up in Ballyroan, South County Dublin, one of a large family. He demonstrated entrepreneurial flair from an early age, selling fire extinguishers door to door from the age of 14. It was in property deals that Niall Mellon made his fortune but it is for...
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Person, Deceased PersonJacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz. Born in Wayne Gates...
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Niall O'Higgins • University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin • Sep 2001 • May 2006 • Bachelor of Arts International • French • Computer Science • Bugs in OpenBSD / Youth culture and La Nouvelle VagueEducational Institution, College/University, Top Level Domain Sponsor, Employer, LocationUniversity College Dublin (Irish: An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) - also known as the National University of Ireland, Dublin (Irish: Ollscoil na hÉireann, Baile Átha Cliath) is the Republic of Ireland's largest university, with over 1,300 faculty and 22,000...
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Person, Award WinnerDavid Hillis teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Person, Film writer, Astronomer, Physicist, Author, Book Subject, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Award WinnerCarl Edward Sagan (November 9 1934 – December 20 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural science. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial...
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Person, Film writer, Astronomer, Physicist, Author, Book Subject, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Award WinnerCarl Edward Sagan (November 9 1934 – December 20 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural science. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial...
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Person, Film writer, Astronomer, Physicist, Author, Book Subject, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Award WinnerCarl Edward Sagan (November 9 1934 – December 20 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural science. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial...
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Person, Film writer, Astronomer, Physicist, Author, Book Subject, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Award WinnerCarl Edward Sagan (November 9 1934 – December 20 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural science. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial...
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Person, Musical Group Member, Musical Artist, Conductor, Martial Artist, Politician, Organization memberChris Maden is a data analyst with Metaweb Technologies, Inc., a Libertarian politician, and a martial arts instructor in San Francisco, California.He enjoys bitter drinks (black teas, Scotch). He has a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo and a second...
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Person, Musical Group Member, Musical Artist, Conductor, Martial Artist, Politician, Organization memberChris Maden is a data analyst with Metaweb Technologies, Inc., a Libertarian politician, and a martial arts instructor in San Francisco, California.He enjoys bitter drinks (black teas, Scotch). He has a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo and a second...
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Person, Musical Group Member, Musical Artist, Conductor, Martial Artist, Politician, Organization memberChris Maden is a data analyst with Metaweb Technologies, Inc., a Libertarian politician, and a martial arts instructor in San Francisco, California.He enjoys bitter drinks (black teas, Scotch). He has a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo and a second...
