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Lauren Holly
actressBorn: 10/28/1963Birthplace: Geneva, New York
Film and television actress best known for her role on TV's Picket Fences. She got her start on the daytime drama All My Children…
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HAND, Edward, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in Clyduff, County Kings, Ireland, December 31, 1744; accompanied the Eighteenth Royal Irish Regiment to the United States as surgeon's mate in…
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