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 * 1) Ebrahim Ismail  Ebrahim
 * 2) Marie-Claire Blais
 * 3) Reginald Green (economist)   ... that in a study for UNICEF, Reginald  Green found that more than two million children under the age of five  had died in Angola and Mozambique due to the South African apartheid regime's  economic policies?
 * 4) Pamela McCorduck   ... that Pamela McCorduck, who chronicled  the evolution of artificial intelligence, regretted not recognizing the  technology's potential for misuse?
 * 5) Gurmeet Bawa
 * 6) Cedric Robinson (guide)
 * 7) Geert Jan van Oldenborgh   ... that climatologist Geert Jan van  Oldenborgh's work was instrumental in proving that the 2021  European floods were made more likely by climate  change?
 * 8) Jay Last
 * 9) Pauline Bart   ... that according to American  sociologist Pauline Bart, "everything is data, but data isn't  everything"?
 * 10) B. Jayaram   ... that Indian cricketer Bangalore  Jayaram's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite  golf club, the Mashie Niblick?
 * 11) Gerd Ruge   ... that Gerd Ruge received a twelve year  entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped his  friend Boris Pasternak financially?
 * 12) Ed Beauvais   ... that Ed Beauvais co-founded the  "darling of deregulation"?
 * 13) David Kennedy (advertising)   ... that David Kennedy, co-founder of the  agency that came up with Nike's Just Do It campaign, was once  gifted 50 pairs of Levi's denims by his employees?
 * 14) Reginald Green (economist)
 * 15) Adolfo J. de Bold
 * 16) Tarak Sinha
 * 17) Jean Pierson
 * 18) Pamela McCorduck
 * 19) Pauline Bart
 * 20) Anthony Downs
 * 21) Sonny Venkatrathnam   ... that anti-apartheid activist Sonny  Venkatrathnam smuggled a copy of the Complete Works of  Shakespeare into a maximum security prison by covering it with  old Deepavali greeting cards?
 * 22) Anthony Downs
 * 23) David Kennedy (advertising)
 * 24) Gerd Ruge
 * 25) 2021 Indian Premier League Final
 * 26) Martin J. Sherwin
 * 27) Myriam Sarachik
 * 28) Guido Imbens
 * 29) Yesudasan
 * 30) Jan Hecker
 * 31) Chandan Mitra
 * 32) Edmond H. Fischer
 * 33) T. S. Shanbhag   ... that bookseller T. S.  Shanbhag started Bangalore's landmark Premier Bookstore on the site  of a burned-down clothing store in 1971?
 * 34) S. G. Neginhal   ... that Indian prime minister Rajiv  Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest  conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial  of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi?
 * 35) B. V. Nimbkar
 * 36) Rand Araskog
 * 37) Najma Chowdhury
 * 38) R. Aravamudan
 * 39) Yashpal Sharma (cricketer)
 * 40) Dilip Kumar
 * 41) Lambert Mascarenhas
 * 42) S. Ramesan Nair
 * 43) Parassala B. Ponnammal
 * 44) Diego Cortez
 * 45) Milkha Singh
 * 46) Farhad Humayun
 * 47) Lois Ehlert
 * 48) Mythili Sivaraman
 * 49) H. S. Doreswamy
 * 50) Ki. Rajanarayanan
 * 51) M. S. Narasimhan
 * 52) Sunil Jain
 * 53) Farooq Qaiser
 * 54) Manas Bihari Verma
 * 55) Spencer Silver
 * 56) S. G. Neginhal
 * 57) K. V. Anand
 * 58) Ronnie Govender
 * 59) Jagdish Khattar
 * 60) Leela Nambudiripad
 * 61) M. Narasimham
 * 62) Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy   ... that United Nations diplomat Enuga  Sreenivasulu Reddy's anti-apartheid efforts were driven by a chance  encounter with African National Congress activist A. B.  Xuma?
 * 63) Wolfgang Clement   ... that German minister Wolfgang  Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds  was to fold back the uvula?
 * 64) M. Narasimham
 * 65) Ranjit Sinha
 * 66) Kakarla Subba Rao
 * 67) Vivek (actor)
 * 68) Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty
 * 69) José Baselga
 * 70) Chao Kuang Piu
 * 71) Laxman Pai
 * 72) Stephen Bechtel Jr.
 * 73) Robert R. Glauber   ... that American financial executive Robert  Glauber could watch an opera "infinite times"?
 * 74) Jarnail Singh (physician)   ... that aviation  medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh's work launched the  first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New  York in 2004?
 * 75) George T. McDonald   ... that philanthropist George  McDonald founded the advocacy group Doe Fund after his  homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after  she was ejected from New York's Grand Central?
 * 76) Alberto Corazón   ... that Spanish designer Alberto  Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in  Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of Francisco  Franco?
 * 77) Mathoor Govindan Kutty   ... that  Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan  Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female  characters on stage?
 * 78) D. Pandian
 * 79) Manfred Gerstenfeld
 * 80) Maria Guarnaschelli   ... that the first cookbook edited by Maria  Guarnaschelli helped introduce American cooks to Indian  cuisine?
 * 81) Ahmed Zaki Yamani
 * 82) Heinz Hermann Thiele
 * 83) Arturo Di Modica
 * 84) M. Bala Subramanion   ... that the biography of Singapore's first Asian  postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion, was released at The  Fullerton Hotel, the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for  35 years?
 * 85) 2021 Australian Open
 * 86) Jarnail Singh (doctor)
 * 87) Robert R. Glauber
 * 88) Arne Sorenson (hotel executive)
 * 89) William Macpherson (judge)
 * 90) Constance Isherwood   ... that British Columbia's oldest practicing  lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last  case hours before her death?
 * 91) James Ridgeway
 * 92) Rupert Neve
 * 93) J. Hillis Miller
 * 94) Maria Guarnaschelli
 * 95) Isadore Singer
 * 96) Leslie E. Robertson
 * 97) Charan Gill   ... that Canadian social activist and human rights  pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a  sawmill?
 * 98) Monika Tilley   ... that fashion designer Monika  Tilley's nipple-baring white mesh swimsuit worn by Cheryl  Tiegs in the 1978 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is an  exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
 * 99) Alberto_Corazón
 * 100) David Washbrook   ... that British historian and South-Asian history  expert David Washbrook called the UK Home Office out on  its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
 * 101) M. Bala Subramanion
 * 102) AlphaFold   ... that DeepMind's protein-folding  program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards  solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
 * 103) Bansi Kaul
 * 104) Ruth Dayan
 * 105) D. N. Jha
 * 106) Mathoor Govindan Kutty
 * 107) Suhail Zaheer Lari   ... that Pakistani historian Suhail Zaheer  Lari and his wife, architect Yasmeen Lari, threatened to elope to  Scotland to get married because the legal marriageable age there was lower  than in England?
 * 108) Charan Gill
 * 109) Ricky Powell
 * 110) Andrew Brooks
 * 111) Lorraine Monk   ... that Canadian photographer and  producer Lorraine Monk's book Between Friends / Entre  Amis was Canada's gift to the United States on their  bicentennial in 1976 (pictured)?
 * 112) Lewis Wolpert
 * 113) Paul J. Crutzen
 * 114) Sonny Fox
 * 115) Godfrey Hodgson
 * 116) Constance Isherwood
 * 117) Shaibal Gupta
 * 118) David Washbrook
 * 119) Juan Guzmán Tapia
 * 120) Walter Bernstein
 * 121) Sharon Begley
 * 122) Sandy Grant Gordon   ... that the Scottish distiller Sandy Grant  Gordon pioneered the creation of single malt Scotch as a  whisky category?
 * 123) Indira Joseph Venniyoor   ... that Travancore Radio's first English-language  broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor, was paid 69 rupees (then  equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
 * 124) Minoru Makihara   ... that Japanese business executive Minoru  Makihara credited his association with activist shareholder Robert  Monks, his roommate at Harvard, for some of the reforms  at Mitsubishi Corporation?
 * 125) Joseph Bachelder III   ... that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of  the golden-parachute executive compensation structure,  represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at  Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM?
 * 126) Jackie Saccoccio   ... that gestural  abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness  in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet  canvases together?
 * 127) Pierantonio Costa
 * 128) Narendra Kumar (mountaineer)
 * 129) Lorraine Monk
 * 130) Joseph Bachelder III
 * 131) Deb Price   ... that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb  Price's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington  Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper?
 * 132) Robin Jackman
 * 133) Barry Lopez
 * 134) Geoffrey Massey   ... that Canadian modernist architect and urban  planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented  freeways from being built in Vancouver?
 * 135) Minoru Makihara
 * 136) Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
 * 137) Sugathakumari
 * 138) Guido Goldman   ... that academic and philanthropist Guido  Goldman convinced West German chancellor Willy Brandt to set  up and endow the German Marshall Fund on the 25th anniversary of  the Marshall Plan?
 * 139) Jack Lenor Larsen
 * 140) Udyavara Madhava Acharya   ... that Udyavara Madhava Acharya is  credited with the modernisation of the theatre  form Yakshagana?
 * 141) R. N. S. Shetty
 * 142) Jack Steinberger
 * 143) Roddam Narasimha
 * 144) Anjum Singh   ... that the final exhibition of Indian  artist Anjum Singh (pictured), titled I am still here, was an  autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?
 * 145) John Le Carré
 * 146) Charley Pride
 * 147) U. A. Khader
 * 148) Astad Deboo
 * 149) Manglesh Dabral
 * 150) Udyavara Madhava Acharya
 * 151) Doug Scott
 * 152) Douglas Stuart (writer)   ... that Douglas Stuart's Booker  Prize–winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 32 publishers  before being picked up?
 * 153) Priscilla Jana   ... that Priscilla Jana, a South African  human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson  Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben  Island?
 * 154) Narinder Singh Kapany
 * 155) Mary Fowkes   ... that Mary Fowkes's autopsies  on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects  of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain?
 * 156) Dharampal Gulati
 * 157) Walter E. Williams
 * 158) Lee Hyo-jae   ... that social activist Lee  Hyo-jae's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming  system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
 * 159) Edward Lazear
 * 160) Marguerite Littman   ... that in 1997, Princess Diana donated  her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized  by AIDS activist Marguerite Littman, which raised more than  $3 million?
 * 161) F. C. Kohli
 * 162) James Wolfensohn
 * 163) Christophe Dominici
 * 164) Ahmed Patel
 * 165) Hamish MacInnes
 * 166) Alan Ramsey
 * 167) Tarun Gogoi
 * 168) Patrick Quinn (ALS activist)
 * 169) Shuggie Bain
 * 170) Ajay Desai
 * 171) Jorge Horacio Brito
 * 172) Digamber Hansda
 * 173) Anjum Singh
 * 174) Soumitra Chatterjee
 * 175) Masatoshi Koshiba
 * 176) Howie Meeker
 * 177) 2020 Indian Premier League Final
 * 178) J. Michael Lane   ... that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane, who  played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox, trekked  across the country from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
 * 179) Vijayalakshmi Ramanan   ... that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, the first woman  officer of the Indian Air Force, custom-tailored her uniform as there  were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
 * 180) Alex Trebek
 * 181) Seymour Topping
 * 182) Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
 * 183) H. G. Somashekar Rao
 * 184) Betty Dodson
 * 185) T. N. Krishnan
 * 186) Cecilia Chiang
 * 187) Lee Kun-hee
 * 188) Frank Horvat
 * 189) J. Michael Lane
 * 190) Vijayalakshmi Ramanan
 * 191) Hiroh Kikai
 * 192) Robert B Wilson
 * 193) Tom Maschler
 * 194) Ed Benguiat
 * 195) Bhanu Athaiya
 * 196) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
 * 197) John Richard Reid
 * 198) Conchata Ferrell
 * 199) Jim Dwyer (journalist)
 * 200) Vijay (director)
 * 201) Ram Vilas Paswan
 * 202) Roger Penrose
 * 203) Gerhard Weber (designer)   ... that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player Steffi  Graf, at age 17 and before her international success, as an ambassador for  the fashion brand Gerry Weber that he co-founded?
 * 204) Quino
 * 205) Wolfgang Clement
 * 206) Isher Judge Ahluwalia
 * 207) Jaswant Singh
 * 208) Sekhar Basu
 * 209) Gerhard Weber (designer)
 * 210) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
 * 211) Suresh Angadi
 * 212) John Turner
 * 213) Joe Ruklick
 * 214) Bill Gates Sr.
 * 215) P. R. Krishna Kumar
 * 216) Agnivesh
 * 217) Diana Rigg
 * 218) Kesavananda Bharati
 * 219) S. I. Padmavati
 * 220) Jack Sherman
 * 221) Ben Cross
 * 222) Madhav Prasad Ghimire
 * 223) Cesare Romiti
 * 224) Chilla Porter
 * 225) Murtaja Baseer
 * 226) Adin Steinsaltz