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    The St. Elizabeth's flood of 1421 was a flooding of the Grote Hollandse Waard, an area in what is now the Netherlands. It takes its name from the feast...
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    Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly (28 November 1624 – 29 January 1684) was a French Jansenist nun. Niece of Angélique Arnauld, daughter of Robert...
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  • Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus was an imperial Roman politician and Senator at the beginning of the 3rd century CE. Mucianus grew up in Verona. He may have...
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  • Alice Van-Springsteen (July 12, 1918 – September 13, 2008) was an American stuntwoman and jockey. Born as Alice Grace van der Veen in Arvada, Colorado...
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  • Ailill Flann Bec, son of Fiachu Muillethan, was an Irish dynast belonging to the Deirgtine, the proto-historical ancestors of the historical Eóganachta...
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    Félix Gras (Malemort-du-Comtat, May 3, 1844 – Avignon, March 4, 1901) was a Provençal poet and novelist. Gras was born into a farming family and went to...
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  • Raniero Dandolo or Rainero Dandolo (fl. 1204–42) was a Venetian admiral and statesman, titled Procurator of San Marco and Vice-Doge of Venice.[when?] The...
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  • Quintus Cornelius Pudens was a Roman senator and early Christian. According to legend, Quintus Cornelius and his wife Priscilla were among the first converted...
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    Abagar ("Абагар") is a breviary by the Bulgarian Roman Catholic Bishop of Nikopol Filip Stanislavov printed in Rome in 1651. It is regarded as the first...
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