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  2. Marvin Mandel - Wikipedia

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    Marvin Mandel (April 19, 1920 – August 30, 2015) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th Governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lt. Governor Blair Lee III served as the state's acting Governor from June 1977 to January 15, 1979 while Mandel was in federal prison for mail fraud and racketeering.

  3. Nissen hut - Wikipedia

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    The Nissen hut could be packed in a standard Army wagon and erected by six men in four hours. The world record for erection is 1 hour 27 minutes. [6] An American version of the Nissen hut known as the Quonset being erected by Army engineers. Production of Nissen huts waned between the wars, but was revived in 1939.

  4. Marvin's Room (film) - Wikipedia

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    Marvin's Room is a 1996 American drama film directed by Jerry Zaks. The script was written by John Guare and based on the play of the same name by Scott McPherson , who died in 1992. McPherson had completed a screenplay for a film version before he died; however, Guare was hired to update it when the film eventually started production years later.

  5. Marvin E. Newman - Wikipedia

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    Marvin Elliott Newman was born in The Bronx "to a family of Russian Jews who'd been in the bakery business for four generations". [2] [1] At age 16, he entered Brooklyn College where he studied sculpture and photography with Walter Rosenblum. [3] In 1948, Newman briefly joined the Photo League where he took classes with John Ebstel. [4]

  6. Marvin Yancy - Wikipedia

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    Marvin Jerome Yancy (May 31, 1950 – March 22, 1985) was an American gospel musician, pastor and Grammy-winning record producer, and former pastor of Fountain of Life Baptist Church. He started his music career, in 1971, with The Independents , who were an American R&B vocal group .

  7. Marvin Glenn Shields - Wikipedia

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    Marvin G. Shields was born December 30, 1939, in Port Townsend, Washington.He lived near Port Townsend on Discovery Bay in Gardiner, Washington. [1] He graduated from Port Townsend High School in 1958 and had moved to Hyder, Alaska, where he worked at Mineral Basin Mining Company, a gold mining project started by Port Townsend company.

  8. Proto-cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    Proto-cuneiform tablet recording the allocation of beer. There is a longstanding debate in the academic community regarding when the Sumerian people arrived in Mesopotamia.

  9. Lee Marvin - Wikipedia

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    Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor. Known for his bass voice and premature white hair, he is best remembered for playing hardboiled "tough guy" characters.