Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA. He was an artist who travelled to Italy, Switzerland ,France and England where in 1811 he gained admittance...
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Johann Most
Anarchist and journalist. Born Germany. Forced into exile, first France and in 1878 to London. Here he founded a newspaper, Freiheit/Freedom in which he printed his anarchist views. Imprisoned for ...
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Captain William Mudge
Surveyor. Born Plymouth, godson of Samuel Johnson. Served in South Carolina. 1791 joined the Ordnance Trigonometrical Survey and became its director in 1798. Thus a very important figure in the wor...
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War served, WW2
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Edward R. Murrow
American journalist lived in London during WW2. His broadcasts made from London during the blitz helped rally American public opinion to Britain's aid. Born North Carolina into a Quaker family. ...
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Eadweard Muybridge
Photographer and motion picture pioneer. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames. He changed his name, probably inspired by the recent discovery in Kingston of a Saxon coronation stone...
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Joaquim Nabuco
Writer and statesman. Born Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo in Recife, Brazil. In 1878 he began to fight against slavery through his political activity and writings. It was eventually aboli...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Brazil, USA
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Alex Napier
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Alexander John Robert Napier was born on 7 July 1963 in the Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia, a British Ove...
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War served, WW2
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Marcus R. Neblett
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Despite him being shown on the September 11 Memorial Garden plaque as Marcus R. Neblett, his name is displ...
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