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  2. James Beckwourth - Wikipedia

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    James Pierson Beckwourth (April 26, 1798/1800 – October 20, 1866) was an American fur trapper, rancher, businessman, explorer, author and scout. Known as "Bloody Arm" because of his skill as a fighter, Beckwourth was of multiracial descent, being born into slavery in Frederick County, Virginia.

  3. Sports Illustrated cover jinx - Wikipedia

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    May 25, 2015: In an unusual twist on the curse, John Forbes Nash, Jr., subject of a biography and a film titled A Beautiful Mind, died in a car crash [69] [70] the week a headline titled "Chip Kelly's Beautiful Mind" appeared on the cover. The reason was for a series of questionable moves made by Kelly in the offseason.

  4. List of mountain men - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.

  5. Jim Baker (frontiersman) - Wikipedia

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    The cabin was reconstructed under the direction of Jim Baker's great-grandson, Paul McAllister of Dixon, Wyoming. [5] [27] Westminster, Colorado, commissioned a statue of Baker. [28] His portrait was created in a stained glass window for the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver. [10] Jim Mountain in northwest Wyoming is named after him. [29]

  6. Heifeng Guai - Wikipedia

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    He is a demon based in a cave on Black Wind Mountain (黑风山). His true form is a black bear, thus the demon is also known as the Black Bear Monster (Chinese: 黑熊精), [1] [2] but he appears as a dark-complexioned man armed with a Black Tassel Spear. [3] [4] He steals Tang Sanzang's cassock during a fire.

  7. Christopher Priest (comic book writer) - Wikipedia

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    Priest (as Jim Owsley) entered the comics industry as a Marvel Comics intern in 1978. [6] He joined Marvel's editorial staff in 1979, working for Paul Laikin as a managing editor on Crazy Magazine [ 7 ] and becoming the first African American editor in mainstream comics. [ 8 ]

  8. List of productions filmed at Pinewood Group facilities

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    The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Rollerball (1975) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Bugsy Malone (1976) The People That Time Forgot (1977) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) Superman (1978) Death on the Nile (1978) Warlords of Atlantis (1978) Alien (1979) The Watcher in the Woods (1980) Superman II (1980 ...

  9. Bran Mak Morn - Wikipedia

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    "The Dark Man" (Weird Tales, December 1931). Set centuries after Bran's death, he appears as an idol worshipped by the surviving Picts in which his soul is said to be resident. "Worms of the Earth" (Weird Tales, November 1932). The last Bran story and the only story told through the Pict's point of view.