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Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker. During World War II, she was a member of the Polish Underground and the Żegota Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw. She helped save 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them with false documents and sheltering them in individual and group children’s homes outside the ghetto. Despite being tortured and imprisoned by the Nazis, Sendler continued to do all she could to help Jewish children in Warsaw.

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Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (1878 – 1951) was an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States. Hepburn served as president of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association before joining the National Woman’s Party. Alongside Margaret Sanger, she co-founded the organization that would become Planned Parenthood. She was the mother of Katharine Hepburn.

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View of Big Ben in London, England during World War II

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Jan Gies (18 October 1905 – 26 January 1993) was a member of the Dutch Resistance who, with his wife Miep, helped hide Anne Frank and her family from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands.

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Regina Anderson. (May 21, 1901 - February 5, 1993) Regina Anderson was an African American librarian in the New York Public Library system who supported many members of the Harlem Renaissance, including W.E.B.Dubois, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and others. Anderson helped found the Krigwa Players (later the Negro Experimental Theatre or Harlem Experimental Theatre) with W. E. B. Du Bois. She helped it find a home in the basement of the 135th Street Public Library in Harlem

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yup

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My colleague told me that Luther’s date of assassination coincide with ZA Bhutto and on Bhutto’s anniversary Pakistani newspaper used to published long articles on Luther as they couldn’t publish anything about Bhutto during Zia regime

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^thts new infor for me

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he was assasinated on April 4, 1968

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all has been commercialised now

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she looks Asian

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Big Ben is used as? I mean any official status

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who was she?

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American actress

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Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower.The tower is now officially called the Elizabeth Tower, after being renamed (from "Clock Tower") to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

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Thanks for the info :)

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Police Woman 1909—Taking care of business

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Scots preparing Christmas pudding in the Western Sahara, 1942