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John Kinsel used his own language to fool the Japanese

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Celeste Caeiro’s small gesture named a revolution

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Frank Auerbach aimed only at one memorable image

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Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week

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Quincy Jones ruled popular music for half a century

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Lily Ebert lived to share her story of Auschwitz

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Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways

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Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease

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Yoshioka Masamitsu saw Pearl Harbor from the air

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Maggie Smith, the dowager countess of comic timing

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Elias Khoury encapsulated the confusions of the Middle East

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Francisco Lopera’s travels in the Andes began to solve a great mystery

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Sérgio Mendes sent Brazil’s party spirit out into the world

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Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way

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Helen Fisher found out the science behind romance

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Wally Amos built, and lost, a delicious empire

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Joss Naylor never let any mountain defeat him

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Inna Solovyova studied both stagecraft and the Russian soul

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Edna O’Brien’s books scandalised Ireland

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Thomas Neff’s idea rid the world of a third of its nuclear warheads

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