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"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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August 1944
- Missing in Action -Count Antoine de Saint Exupery
  
  Time | Aug 14, 44
  
  Count Antoine de Saint Exupéry, 44, best-selling French aviator-novelist (Wind, Sand and Stars, Flight to Arras); on a reconnaissance flight over Europe. Saint Exupery, veteran of over 13,000 flying hours, was grounded last March by a U.S. Army Air Forces officer because of...

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is seen in this undated file photo. Nearly 40 years after his assassination in April 1968, after the deaths of his wife and others who knew both the man and what he stood... (AP Photo)

A photo from the Torn Sweater Series. The first shot has become perhaps the best known picture of Dean, used as a backdrop for the stage revue Grease, on six- and twelve-sheets outside of theaters, and... (The Official Site of James Dean)

This Sept. 1981 photo provided by Epic records shows Dan Fogelberg. Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died... (Associated Press)

Brad Renfro attends the New York Premiere for Alfie, held at the Ziegfeld Theatre, in this Oct. 18, 2004, file photo in New York. Renfro's lawyer Richard Kaplan said the 25-year-old actor's body was... (Associated Press)

Actor Heath Ledger attends a special Cinema Society and Hogan hosted screening of "I'm Not There" at the Chelsea West Cinemas, in this Nov. 13, 2007, file photo in New York. A New York Police Department... (Associated Press)

Christian Brando is photographed outside the Los Angeles County superior courthouse in this Oct. 25, 2005, file photo, in Burbank, Calif. Brando, the eldest son of the late famed actor Marlon Brando,... (Associated Press)

Jeff Healey, of the Canadian based Jeff Healey Band, performs in New York's Central Park in this July 1, 2000, file photo. Healey, arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time, died... (Associated Press)

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Robert F(rancis) Kennedy
Encyclopedia Britannica

(born Nov. 20, 1925, Brookline, Mass., U.S.—died June 6, 1968, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. politician. The son of Joseph P. Kennedy , he interrupted his education at Harvard University to serve in World War II; he was graduated from Harvard in 1948 and received a law degree from the University ...

John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
Encyclopedia Britannica

(born May 29, 1917, Brookline, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas) 35th president of the U.S. (1961–63). The son of Joseph P. Kennedy , he graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the navy the following year. He commanded a patrol torpedo (PT) boat in World War II ...

King, Martin Luther, Jr.
World Encyclopedia

King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929–68) US Baptist minister and civil rights leader. He led the boycott of segregated public transport in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956. King was founder (1960) and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) . He opposed the Vietnam War ...

Alexander the Great
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Alexander the Great or Alexander III, 356-323 BC, king of Macedon, conqueror of much of Asia. Youth and Kingship The son of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias , he had Aristotle as his tutor and was given a classical education. Alexander had no part in the murder of his father, ...

Achilles
World Encyclopedia

Achilles In the Greek epic tradition, a formidable warrior, the most fearless Greek fighter of the Trojan War and the hero of Homer's Iliad . Legend held him invulnerable from weapons because he had ...

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