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Earl of Derby (/ˈdɑːrbi/ DAR-bee) is a title in the Peerage of England. The title was first adopted by Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby, under a creation...

Frederick Rankin Taylor (December 3, 1924 – January 6, 2002) was a college men's basketball coach for Ohio State University from 1959 to 1976. Prior to...

Vincent Spadea (born July 19, 1974) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He reached a career high tenth position in the ATP Champions...

The Cayuse War was an armed conflict that took place in the Northwestern United States from 1847 to 1855 between the Cayuse people of the region and the...

Riduan Isamuddin, also known by the nom de guerre Hambali (born April 4, 1964), is the former military leader of the Indonesian terrorist organization...

Peter Brett Cullen (born August 26, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dan Fixx in Falcon Crest (1986–1988), Sam Cain in The...

Black Peruvians or Afro-Peruvians are Peruvians of mostly or partially African descent. They mostly descend from enslaved Africans brought to Peru after...

Joseph Kent (January 14, 1779 – November 24, 1837) was an American politician and planter who was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1833...

Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary...

Mykola Danylovych Rudenko (Ukrainian: Микола Данилович Руденко; 19 December 1920 – 1 April 2004) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, philosopher, Soviet dissident...

Prince Kiril of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav (Bulgarian: Кирил, принц Преславски, German: Kyrill Heinrich Franz Ludwig Anton Karl Philipp Prinz von Bulgarien;...

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Власов, September 14 [O.S. September 1] 1901 – 1 August 1946) was a Soviet Red Army general and collaborator...

Ash-har Quraishi (born January 5, 1975) (pron. Usher Ker-AY=Shee) is an American broadcast journalist and national consumer correspondent for CBS News...

Matthew Russell Wood (born August 15, 1972) is an American sound editor and voice actor. He is a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound in Marin County...

Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. (born December 19, 1935), known as Ed Bethune, is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and novelist in Little Rock, Arkansas, who was...

Stuart Ernest Piggott, CBE, FBA, FSA, FRSE, FSA Scot (28 May 1910 – 23 September 1996) was a British archaeologist, best known for his work on prehistoric...

Peter French (April 30, 1849 – December 26, 1897) was a rancher in the western United States in the late 19th century. The community of Frenchglen, Oregon...

Wamba (Medieval Latin: VVamba, Vamba, Wamba; c. 630 – 687/688) was the king of the Visigoths from 672 to 680. During his reign, the Visigothic kingdom...

Leslie Alvin White (January 19, 1900, Salida, Colorado – March 31, 1975, Lone Pine, California) was an American anthropologist known for his advocacy of...

Matthew Francis "Matt" McHugh (born December 6, 1938) is an American lawyer and former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives...