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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - United Fruit Company - Corporate history

In 1871, U.S. railroad entrepreneur Henry Meiggs signed a contract with the government of Costa Rica to build a railroad connecting the capital city of San José to the port of Limón in the Caribbean. Meiggs was assisted in the project by his young nephew Minor C. Keith, who took over Meigg's business concerns in Costa Rica after Meigg's death in 1877. As an experiment, Keith had begun planting bananas along the train route in 1873. When the Costa Rican government defaulted on its payments in 1882, Keith had to borrow £1.2 million f ...

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United Fruit Company, United Fruit Company - Corporate history, United Fruit Company - History in Central America, United Fruit Company - Reputation

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - The Dick Cavett Show - Notable moments

The show was often unpredictable and produced some notoriously tense moments. Artist Salvador Dalí was behaving so eccentrically that at one point Cavett interrupted him by waving his hands in Dalí's face and saying "Boojie, boojie!" The audience broke up, and Dalí appeared at a loss. A female viewer in a DC hospital bed reportedly had to have her stitches partially resewn from laughing so hard. An interview with Norman Mailer was not going well. Mailer moved his chair away from the other guests (Vidal and ...

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The Dick Cavett Show, The Dick Cavett Show - Notable moments, The Dick Cavett Show - Celebrity guests

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll - Criticisms

As it happens with many free votes over the Internet, the poll may be a victim of organized voting campaigns and biases introduced by the nationality and language of the organizer. This may be true in the present case, since the number of Iranian intellectuals represented in the list is above that of entire Latin America, Nigeria has almost the totality of votes in the entire Africa and France is abnormally underrepresented. In addition, the poll suffers from a wide spread of votes between the first and the last places, i.e., most of the nominees below the 50th rank hav ...

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The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll - Criticisms, The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll - External link

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Theodore Roosevelt - Progressive Party candidate in 1912

Late in 1911, Roosevelt finally broke with Taft and LaFollette and announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination. Most of LaFollette's supporters went over to Roosevelt, leaving the Wisconsin Senator embittered. Roosevelt, stepping up his attack on judges, carried 9 of the states with preferential primaries, LaFollette took two, and Taft only one. Most professional Republican politicians were supporting Taft, and they proved difficult to upset in non-primary states. In a decisive move, Taft's people purchased support of the ...

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Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt - Childhood and education, Theodore Roosevelt - Life in the Badlands, Theodore Roosevelt - Return to public life, Theodore Roosevelt - Vice Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt - Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt - Growing split inside Republican Party, Theodore Roosevelt - Progressive Party candidate in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt - Roosevelt and the First World War, Theodore Roosevelt - Post-Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt - Personal life, Theodore Roosevelt - Legacy, Theodore Roosevelt - Quotes, Theodore Roosevelt - In popular culture, Theodore Roosevelt - Presidential firsts, Theodore Roosevelt - Media

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - List of The Simpsons episodes - The series

These are the full 22-minute long episodes that premiered before Christmas of 1989 as a spinoff of the shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. List of The Simpsons episodes - Season One 1989-1990. 13 episodes Ron Taylor guest stars Albert Brooks guest stars Albert Brooks guest stars Kelsey Grammer guest stars Penny Marshall guest stars List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Two 1990-1991. ...

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List of The Simpsons episodes, List of The Simpsons episodes - The shorts, List of The Simpsons episodes - The series, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season One 1989-1990, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Two 1990-1991, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Three 1991-1992, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Four 1992-1993, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Five 1993-1994, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Six 1994-1995, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Seven 1995-1996, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Eight 1996-1997, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Nine 1997-1998, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Ten 1998-1999, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Eleven 1999-2000, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Twelve 2000-2001, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Thirteen 2001-2002, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Fourteen 2002-2003, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Fifteen 2003-2004, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Sixteen 2004-2005, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Seventeen 2005-2006, List of The Simpsons episodes - Season Eighteen 2006-2007, List of The Simpsons episodes - Music videos, List of The Simpsons episodes - The spots, List of The Simpsons episodes - Simpsons Alternative UK Christmas Message 2004

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Gattaca - Plot

In a fictional world where genetic engineering of humans is common and DNA plays the primary role in determining social class, Vincent (Hawke) is conceived and born without the aid of this technology. Suffering from the nearly-eradicated physical dysfunctions of nearsightedness and a congenital heart defect, as well as being given a life expectancy of 30 years, Vincent faces extreme discrimination and prejudice. The only way he can achieve his life-long dream of becoming an astronaut is to impersonate someone else. He assumes the identity of ...

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Gattaca, Gattaca - Plot, Gattaca - Criticism, Gattaca - Trivia

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - American way - Historical use

Our way of life is an expression that finds in all the main documents of American history. Let us see the use of the american itself use this terminology: executive Order 10631 Eisenhower August 17, 1955 Code of Conduct for Members of the United States Armed Forces: 1)I am an American fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense. [Article I amended by EO 12633 of Mar. 28, 1988, 53 FR 10355, 3 CFR, 1988 Comp., p. 561] In the 1998 a Powerful Documents Ins ...

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American way, American way - Historical use, American way - American way of life in the culture, American way - Comics, American way - Writers, American way - Music, American way - Film, American way - Television

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - Early life

Barbara Grizzuti was born in Queens, New York City, on 14 September 1934. Her parents were first-generation Americans; her grandparents were immigrants from Calabria in southern Italy. She later described her childhood as deeply troubled. Her mother, who apparently suffered from mental illness, was emotionally distant and insisted on describing herself as 'Barbara's relative,' not her mother. Near the end of her life Harrison also revealed that her father had sexually abused her. The turmoil of her ...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - Early life, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - First publications, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - Journalism travel writing and fiction, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - Final years, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - Books

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - American terrorism term - Usage of the term

Institute for Policy Studies scholar Professor Noam Chomsky has referred to the tactics used by agents of the US government and their proxies in their execution of US foreign policy in such countries as Nicaragua, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentina, Colombia, Turkey, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia [5] as a form of terrorism from which the term "American terrorism" has been drawn. Chomsky has also described the U.S as "a leading terrorist state." After President ...

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American terrorism term, American terrorism term - Notable groups and individuals that use the term in the media, American terrorism term - Disputes over the use of the term, American terrorism term - Usage of the term, American terrorism term - Criticism of the term

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - J. Edgar Hoover - Department of Justice and FBI career

Rather than enlisting for military service during World War I, he found work with the Justice Department. He soon proved himself capable and was promoted to head the Enemy Aliens Registration Section. In 1919, he became head of the new General Intelligence Division of the Justice Department (see the Palmer Raids). From there, in 1921, he joined the Bureau of Investigation as deputy head, and in 1924 the Attorney General made him the ...

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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover - FBI Legacy, J. Edgar Hoover - Early life and education, J. Edgar Hoover - Department of Justice and FBI career, J. Edgar Hoover - Personal life, J. Edgar Hoover - Claims of African-American ancestry, J. Edgar Hoover - References in fiction, J. Edgar Hoover - Notes

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - America First Committee - Lindbergh

Lindbergh had been actively involved in questioning the motives of the Roosevelt administration well before the formation of the AFC. Lindbergh adopted an anti-war stance even before the Battle of Britain and before the advent of the lend-lease bill. His first radio speech was broadcast on September 15, 1939 over all three of the major radio networks (Mutual, National, and Columbia). Lindbergh urged listeners to look beyond the speeches and propaganda they were being fed and instead look at who was writing the speeches and reports, ...

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America First Committee, America First Committee - Membership, America First Committee - Issues, America First Committee - Lindbergh, America First Committee - Result

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Bob Roberts - Plot Summary

Tim Robbins stars as Bob Roberts, a U.S. Senate candidate from Pennsylvania who cleverly co-opts the image of the 1960s rebel — he rides a motorcycle, he sings folk songs (offering direct, catchy sendups of classic Bob Dylan songs and album covers), but twists them to serve and promote "conservative" values (mostly represented here as an obsession with money). The Roberts character is a master of image manipulation. We later meet Roberts' opponent, Democratic incumbent Brickley Paiste (a blustering, clumsy character well played by Gore Vi ...

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Bob Roberts, Bob Roberts - Plot Summary, Bob Roberts - Trivia

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Bouvard et Pécuchet - Themes

Nowhere do Flaubert's explorations of the relation of signs to the objects they signify reach a more thorough study than in this work. Bouvard and Pécuchet systematically confuse signs and symbols with reality, an assumption that causes them much suffering, as it does for Emma Bovary and Frédéric Moreau. Yet here, due to the explicit focus on books and knowledge, Flaubert's ideas reach their climax. Consequently, the book is widely read as a precursor to modern theories on semiotics and postmodernism. The modern themes addressed in the work suggest a reason why criti ...

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Bouvard et Pécuchet, Bouvard et Pécuchet - Plot, Bouvard et Pécuchet - Structure, Bouvard et Pécuchet - Themes, Bouvard et Pécuchet - Criticism

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Books

Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Detective fiction. The Roma Sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor, starts with Roman Blood. The Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis. The SPQR series by John Maddox Roberts. The Germanicus Mosaic series by Rosemary Rowe - set in Roman Britain. The Claudia series by Marilyn Todd The Publius Aurelius series by Danila Comastri Montanari The Eagle series by Simon Scarrow< ...

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Fiction set in Ancient Rome, Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Books, Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Detective fiction, Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Comic books, Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Movies, Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Plays, Fiction set in Ancient Rome - Television

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Crypto-fascism - Origins

The term is mainly credited to Gore Vidal. During a television interview during the chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Vidal described William F. Buckley, Jr. as a "crypto-Nazi" and later corrected himself as meaning to describe him as a "crypto-fascist". The term has been used frequently in Gore Vidal's literature and by others, including Vidal's adherents. William F. Buckley's famous response to the term was, "Now, listen you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face." This is according to several source ...

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Crypto-fascism, Crypto-fascism - Origins, Crypto-fascism - Revival, Crypto-fascism - Cultural References

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Carson McCullers - Life

She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia of middle class parentage. Her mother was the granddaughter of a plantation owner and Confederate War hero. Her father, similar to Wilbur Kelly in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, was a well-to-do watchmaker and jeweler of French Hugenot extraction. From the age of five she took piano lessons, and at the age of 15 she received a typewriter from her father. Two years later she was sent to the Juilliard School of Music in New York City to study the piano, but never attended the sch ...

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Carson McCullers, Carson McCullers - Life, Carson McCullers - Criticism, Carson McCullers - Works, Carson McCullers - Novels, Carson McCullers - Other works, Carson McCullers - Notes

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Caligula film - Multiple versions

Caligula was shown in various versions, including: An unreleased version, shown in a limited private screening at the Cannes, was 210 minutes long. A 150 minute Italian cut; it was basically a shortened version of the U.S. edition. It was eventually pulled out of release on favour of Franco Rossellini's re-edited version (more on which below), but a briefly released VHS tape exists, though it is now out-of print and is considered a major collector's item. The unrated U.S. version, running 156 minutes and ...

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Caligula film, Caligula film - Multiple versions, Caligula film - Critical reaction, Caligula film - Cast

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Aviator - Well-known aviators

Aviator - People largely known for their contributions to the history of aviation:. While all of these people were pilots (and some still are) many are also noted for contributions in areas such as aircraft design and manufacturing, navigation, or popularization. John Alcock Richard Bach Italo Balbo Bernt Balchen Elly Beinhorn Louis Bleriot John Nicolaas Block Bill Boeing Arthur Whitten Brown Milo Burcham Henri ...

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Aviator, Aviator - Civilian, Aviator - Military, Aviator - Well-known aviators, Aviator - People largely known for their contributions to the history of aviation:, Aviator - Other famous military pilots:, Aviator - People from other walks of life with aviation in their history:

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Palimpsest - Alternate usage

The word palimpsest also refers to a plaque which has been turned around and engraved on what was originally the back side. In planetary astronomy, ancient lunar craters whose relief has disappeared from subequent volcanic outpourings, leaving only a "ghost" of a rim are also known as palimpsests. Icy surfaces of natural satellites like Callisto and Ganymede preserve hints of their history in these rings, where the crater's relief has been effaced by cr ...

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Palimpsest, Palimpsest - Some famous palimpsests, Palimpsest - Alternate usage, Palimpsest - Uses in culture

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Contributions to liberal theory - Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli (Florence, 1469-1527), best known for his Il Principe was the founder of realist political philosophy, advocated republican government, citizen armies, division of power, protection of personal property, and restraint of government expenditure as being necessary to the liberties of a republic. He wrote extensively on the need for individual initiative - virtu - as an essential characteristic of stable government. He argued that liberty was the central good which government should protect, and that "g ...

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Contributions to liberal theory, Contributions to liberal theory - Niccolò Machiavelli, Contributions to liberal theory - Desiderius Erasmus, Contributions to liberal theory - Hugo Grotius, Contributions to liberal theory - Thomas Hobbes, Contributions to liberal theory - Baruch Spinoza, Contributions to liberal theory - John Locke, Contributions to liberal theory - John Trenchard, Contributions to liberal theory - Charles de Montesquieu, Contributions to liberal theory - Thomas Gordon, Contributions to liberal theory - François Quesnay, Contributions to liberal theory - Voltaire, Contributions to liberal theory - Benjamin Franklin, Contributions to liberal theory - David Hume, Contributions to liberal theory - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Contributions to liberal theory - Denis Diderot, Contributions to liberal theory - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Contributions to liberal theory - Samuel Adams, Contributions to liberal theory - Richard Price, Contributions to liberal theory - Anders Chydenius, Contributions to liberal theory - Adam Smith, Contributions to liberal theory - William Blackstone, Contributions to liberal theory - Immanuel Kant, Contributions to liberal theory - Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Contributions to liberal theory - Edmund Burke, Contributions to liberal theory - Joseph Priestley, Contributions to liberal theory - August Ludwig von Schlözer, Contributions to liberal theory - Patrick Henry, Contributions to liberal theory - Thomas Paine, Contributions to liberal theory - Thomas Jefferson, Contributions to liberal theory - Marquis de Condorcet, Contributions to liberal theory - Jeremy Bentham, Contributions to liberal theory - Emmanuel Sieyès, Contributions to liberal theory - James Madison, Contributions to liberal theory - Alexander Hamilton, Contributions to liberal theory - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Contributions to liberal theory - Benjamin Constant, Contributions to liberal theory - Jean-Baptiste Say, Contributions to liberal theory - Wilhelm von Humboldt, Contributions to liberal theory - David Ricardo, Contributions to liberal theory - James Mill, Contributions to liberal theory - Friedrich List, Contributions to liberal theory - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Contributions to liberal theory - Frédéric Bastiat, Contributions to liberal theory - Harriet Martineau, Contributions to liberal theory - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Contributions to liberal theory - Alexis de Tocqueville, Contributions to liberal theory - William Lloyd Garrison, Contributions to liberal theory - John Stuart Mill, Contributions to liberal theory - Abraham Lincoln, Contributions to liberal theory - Juan Bautista Alberdi, Contributions to liberal theory - Henry David Thoreau, Contributions to liberal theory - Jakob Burkhardt, Contributions to liberal theory - Herbert Spencer, Contributions to liberal theory - Thomas Hill Green, Contributions to liberal theory - Carl Menger, Contributions to liberal theory - William Graham Sumner, Contributions to liberal theory - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Contributions to liberal theory - Lujo Brentano, Contributions to liberal theory - Tomás Masaryk, Contributions to liberal theory - Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Contributions to liberal theory - Louis Brandeis, Contributions to liberal theory - Thorstein Veblen, Contributions to liberal theory - John Dewey, Contributions to liberal theory - Friedrich Naumann, Contributions to liberal theory - Max Weber, Contributions to liberal theory - Leonard Hobhouse, Contributions to liberal theory - Benedetto Croce, Contributions to liberal theory - Walther Rathenau, Contributions to liberal theory - William Beveridge, Contributions to liberal theory - Ludwig von Mises, Contributions to liberal theory - John Maynard Keynes, Contributions to liberal theory - José Ortega y Gasset, Contributions to liberal theory - Salvador de Madariaga, Contributions to liberal theory - Upton Sinclair, Contributions to liberal theory - Will Durant, Contributions to liberal theory - Adolf Berle, Contributions to liberal theory - Wilhelm Röpke, Contributions to liberal theory - Bertil Ohlin, Contributions to liberal theory - Friedrich Hayek, Contributions to liberal theory - Karl Popper, Contributions to liberal theory - Alan Paton, Contributions to liberal theory - John Hicks, Contributions to liberal theory - Raymond Aron, Contributions to liberal theory - Simone de Beauvoir, Contributions to liberal theory - John Kenneth Galbraith, Contributions to liberal theory - Isaiah Berlin, Contributions to liberal theory - Milton Friedman, Contributions to liberal theory - Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Contributions to liberal theory - James Buchanan, Contributions to liberal theory - John Rawls, Contributions to liberal theory - Murray Newton Rothbard, Contributions to liberal theory - Gore Vidal, Contributions to liberal theory - Noam Chomsky, Contributions to liberal theory - Ralf Dahrendorf, Contributions to liberal theory - Karl-Hermann Flach, Contributions to liberal theory - Joseph Raz, Contributions to liberal theory - Ronald Dworkin, Contributions to liberal theory - Richard Rorty, Contributions to liberal theory - Amartya Sen, Contributions to liberal theory - Robert Nozick, Contributions to liberal theory - Hernando de Soto, Contributions to liberal theory - Bruce Ackerman, Contributions to liberal theory - Joseph Stiglitz, Contributions to liberal theory - Martha Nussbaum, Contributions to liberal theory - Francis Fukuyama, Contributions to liberal theory - Dirk Verhofstadt, Contributions to liberal theory - Will Kymlicka

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Italo Calvino - Timeline

He stayed in San Remo, on the Italian Riviera, for some 20 years, and enrolled in the Avanguardisti (a fascist youth organisation to which membership was practically compulsory) with whom he took part in the occupation of the French Riviera. He suffered some religious troubles, his relatives being followers of the Waldensian Protestant Church. He met Eugenio Scalfari (later a politician and the founder of the major newspaper La Repubblica), ...

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Italo Calvino, Italo Calvino - Timeline, Italo Calvino - If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino - Bibliography, Italo Calvino - Quotations, Italo Calvino - Italo Calvino, Italo Calvino - Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Aviator - Well-known aviators

Aviator - People largely known for their contributions to the history of aviation:. While all of these people were pilots, many are also noted for contributions in areas such as aircraft design and manufacturing, navigation, or popularization. John Alcock Richard Bach Italo Balbo Bernt Balchen Elly Beinhorn Louis Bleriot John Nicolaas Block Bill Boeing Arthur Whitten Brown Milo Burcham Henri Buttress Ge ...

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Aviator, Aviator - Civilian, Aviator - Military, Aviator - Well-known aviators, Aviator - People largely known for their contributions to the history of aviation:, Aviator - Other famous military pilots:, Aviator - People from other walks of life with aviation in their history:

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