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  2. Henry VIII - Wikipedia

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    Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled.

  3. Joan of Arc - Wikipedia

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    Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.

  4. Alfred the Great - Wikipedia

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    Alfred was a son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").

  5. Jennifer Connelly - Wikipedia

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    Jennifer Lynn Connelly was born on December 12, 1970, [1] in Round Top, a hamlet in Cairo, New York, United States.She is the only child [2] of Ilene Carol [3] (née Schumann; [4] 1942 [5] –2013), an antique dealer, and Gerard Connelly (died 2008), [6] a clothing manufacturer. [7]

  6. The Allman Brothers Band - Wikipedia

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    The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 [3] by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

  7. Thomas Sowell - Wikipedia

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  8. Intelligence quotient - Wikipedia

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    An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardised tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. [1] The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term Intelligenzquotient, his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests at University of Breslau he advocated in a 1912 book.

  9. Jimmy Buffett - Wikipedia

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    Buffett was born on December 25, 1946, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, [23] and he spent part of his childhood in Mobile and Fairhope, Alabama.He was the son of Mary Lorraine (née Peets) (died September 25, 2003) [24] and James Delaney Buffett, Jr. (died May 1, 2003), who worked for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.