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My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
Goodman Ace, Writer (1899) |
Ernest Gaines, Writer (1933) |
Adam Jones, Musician (1965) |
Martin Luther King, Jr., Leader (1929) |
Regina King, Actress (1971) |
Les Baxter, Musician (1996) |
Sammy Cahn, Musician (1993) |
Emanuel Celler, Politician (1981) |
Josephus Daniels, Politician (1948) |
Edward Everett, Statesman (1865) |
Fannie Farmer, Celebrity (1915) |
Minnesota Fats, Celebrity (1996) |
Elizabeth Janeway, Author (2005) |
Meyer Lansky, Criminal (1983) |