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  2. Wishful Thinking (British band) - Wikipedia

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    In 1980, the group became inactive. On April 16, 2005, the band members Kevin Finn, Brian Allen, Roger Charles and John Franklin reunited to perform on television for RTL (German TV channel). In May 2012, drummer Brian Allen (1941 - 2012) died. In February 2016, Kevin Finn ("Kevin Scott", "Danny Finn") (1950 - 2016) died after a brief illness.

  3. Frederick Winslow Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Taylor was born in 1856 to a Quaker family in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taylor's father, Franklin Taylor, a Princeton-educated lawyer, built his wealth on mortgages. [5] Taylor's mother, Emily Annette Taylor (née Winslow), was an ardent abolitionist and a coworker with Lucretia Mott.

  4. John Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819 and the Mackenzie River expedition of 1825, and served as ...

  5. List of nicknames of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The American Cincinnatus: [1] Like the famous Roman, he won a war, then became a private citizen instead of seeking power or riches as a reward. He became the first president general of the Society of the Cincinnati, formed by Revolutionary War officers who also "declined offers of power and position to return to his home and plough".

  6. Franklin Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Franklin Taylor (February 5, 1843 – March 19, 1919) was an English pianist, organist, music educator, and writer on music. Life and career.

  7. John Franklin (actor) - Wikipedia

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    He was born John Paul Salapatek in Blue Island, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, on June 16, 1959. As a child, Franklin had a growth hormone deficiency; as a result, his adult height is "barely 5 feet", or roughly 152 centimeters. [1] In 1977, John graduated from Dwight D. Eisenhower High School.

  8. John Taylor (Baptist preacher) - Wikipedia

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    John Taylor (1752–1833) was a pioneer Baptist preacher, religious writer, frontier historian and planter in north and central Kentucky.His two histories of early Baptist churches in Kentucky provide insight into the frontier society of the early decades of the 19th century.

  9. Zachary Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Taylor and his Secretary of State, John M. Clayton, both lacked diplomatic experience and came into office at a relatively uneventful time in American–international politics. Their shared nationalism allowed Taylor to devolve foreign policy matters to Clayton with minimal oversight, although no decisive foreign policy was established under ...