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Director: Dennis HopperCast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Karen Black This gutsy, low-budget road film features inspired performances, good writing, expressive camera work…
RIDER Ira Edgar , a Representative from New York;
born in Jersey City, N.J., November 17, 1868;
attended the public schools and the College of the City of New York;
was graduated from the St.…
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October 15, 1897, and while still an infant moved with his parents to Hawaii;
attended Punahou Academy…
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Kenneth H. OlsenBorn: 1926Birthplace: Stratford, Conn. Magnetic core memory—Olsen and his Digital Equipment Corporation developed the first successful minicomputer. Digital also developed the…
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