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Emmylou HARRIS
1947
American singer, songwriter, and musician
Harris is from a career military family. Her father, Walter Harris (1921-1993), was a Marine Corps officer, and her mother, Eugenia (1921-2014), was a wartime military wife. Her father was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham,[...]
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Samuel MORSE
American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code
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Alec GUINNESS
English actor
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Walter CHRYSLER
American machinist, railroad man, automotive industry executive, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation
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Paul AVERY
American journalist, best known for his reporting on the serial killer known as the Zodiac
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