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Princess of Asturias Awards

Index Princess of Asturias Awards

The Princess of Asturias Awards (Premios Princesa de Asturias, Premios Princesa d'Asturies), formerly the Prince of Asturias Awards from 1981–2014 (Premios Príncipe de Asturias) are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Princess of Asturias Foundation (previously the Prince of Asturias Foundation) to individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs. [1]

415 relations: Adam Zagajewski, Adolfo Suárez, Age of majority, Al Gore, Alain Touraine, Alfredo Kraus, Alicia de Larrocha, Aller, Alliance Française, Alma Guillermoprieto, Amable Liñán, AmfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, Amieva, Amin Maalouf, Amos Oz, Amref Health Africa, Annie Leibovitz, Anthony Giddens, Anthony R. Hunter, Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Damasio, Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Antonio González, 1st Marquis of Valdeterrazo, Antonio López García, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Arthur Miller, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, Asturias, Atapuerca Mountains, Augusto Monterroso, Avelino Corma Canos, Álvaro Mutis, Ángel González Muñiz, Íngrid Betancourt, Óscar Arias, Barbara Hendricks, Barry Barish, Basque Country (autonomous community), Belisario Betancur, Berlin, Bert Vogelstein, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Drayton, Boal, Bob Dylan, Bob Kahn, Brazil national football team, British Council, ..., Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, Burundi, Cabrales, Cabranes, Caddy Adzuba, Camilo José Cela, Camino de Santiago, Cangas de Onís, Caritas Internationalis, Carl Lewis, Carlo Maria Martini, Carlos Bousoño, Carlos Fuentes, Carmen Martín Gaite, Caro and Cuervo Institute, Castropol, Central American University, CERN, Chiaki Mukai, Christian mission, Claudio Magris, Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, CNN, Colombres (Ribadedeva), Colunga, Contadora group, Costa Rica, Craig Venter, Cudillero, Daniel Barenboim, Dante Alighieri Society, Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, David Attenborough, David Julius, Doris Lessing, Eduardo Chillida, Eduardo García de Enterría, Edward Said, EFE, El Colegio de México, El Espectador, El País, El Sistema, El Tiempo (Colombia), Emilio García Gómez, Emilio Lledó, Emilio Rosenblueth, Emma Bonino, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Enrique Fuentes Quintana, Enrique V. Iglesias, Erasmus Programme, Esther Duflo, European Union, Eusebio Sempere, F. W. de Klerk, Fatema Mernissi, Fatiha Boudiaf, Felipe VI of Spain, Fernando Alonso, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Fondo de Cultura Económica, François Englert, Francis Collins, Francis Ford Coppola, Francisco Ayala (novelist), Francisco Bolívar Zapata, Francisco Javier Gómez Noya, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Francisco Nieva, Francisco Umbral, Frank Gehry, Fred Vargas, Fukushima 50, Fulbright Program, Galen D. Stucky, Günter Grass, George M. Whitesides, George Steiner, Ghana, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Ginés Morata, Giovanni Sartori, Goethe-Institut, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Google, Graça Machel, Graciano García García, Grandas de Salime, Greg Winter, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, Guido Münch, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Haile Gebrselassie, Hamilton O. Smith, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Hassiba Boulmerka, Helmut Kohl, Hicham El Guerrouj, Hispanic Society of America, Howard Gardner, Hugh Herr, Hussein of Jordan, Ibias, Ifakara Health Institute, Iker Casillas, Indro Montanelli, Instituto Camões, Instituto Cervantes, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, International Space Station, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Ismail Kadare, J. K. Rowling, Jacinto Convit, Jacques Delors, Jacques Santer, James Nachtwey, Jane Goodall, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier Sotomayor, Jürgen Habermas, Jean Daniel, Jean Weissenbach, Jennifer Doudna, Jesús López Cobos, Joan Massagué, Joan Miró, Joaquín Rodrigo, Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, John Banville, John Elliott (historian), John Glenn, John Sulston, Jordan, Jorge Oteiza, José Carreras, José Ferrater Mora, José Hierro, José López Portillo, José María Olazábal, Joseph Altman, Joseph Pérez, Juan Antonio Samaranch, 1st Marquess of Samaranch, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Juan José Linz, Juan Rulfo, Judah Folkman, Julián Marías, Julio Caro Baroja, Karen Armstrong, Kip Thorne, Krzysztof Penderecki, Krzysztof Wielicki, Lance Armstrong, Lastres, Lawrence Roberts (scientist), Lena, Asturias, Leonard Cohen, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Leonor, Princess of Asturias, Les Luthiers, LIGO, List of awards, Llanes, Luc Montagnier, Luis Díez del Corral, Luis García Berlanga, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Mali, Manuel Ballester, Manuel Cardona, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, Manuel Estiarte, María Zambrano, Marc Gasol, Marcos Moshinsky, Margaret Atwood, Mario Bunge, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mark E. Davis, Martí de Riquer i Morera, Martha Nussbaum, Martin Cooper (inventor), Martin Scorsese, Martina Navratilova, Mary Beard (classicist), Mary Robinson, Max Planck Society, Maya Plisetskaya, Mário Soares, Médecins Sans Frontières, Medicus Mundi International, Michael Haneke, Michael J. Sandel, Michael Schumacher, Miguel Delibes, Miguel Induráin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Miquel Barceló, Monarchy of Spain, Montserrat Caballé, Morcín, Moreda, Aller, Mozambique, Mstislav Rostropovich, Muhammad Yunus, National Autonomous University of Mexico, National Geographic Society, National Transplant Organization, Nature (journal), Nava, Asturias, Navelgas, Navia, Asturias, Nélida Piñon, Núria Espert, Nelson Mandela, New York City Marathon, New Zealand national rugby union team, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Novellana, O Globo, Octavio Paz, Olayinka Koso-Thomas, Onís, ONCE, Orfeón Donostiarra, Oscar Niemeyer, Oviedo, Pablo García Baena, Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty, Pablo Serrano, Paco de Lucía, Paris Agreement, Pau Gasol, Paul Auster, Paul Krugman, Peñamellera Baja, Pedro Almodóvar, Pedro Duque, Pedro Laín Entralgo, Pedro Miguel Etxenike, Peter Anthony Lawrence, Peter Higgs, Philip Roth, Pierre Werner, Pilar Lorengar, Plácido Domingo, Politics of Guatemala, Porrúa (Llanes), Puerto de Vega, Puerto Rico, Quino, Raúl Alfonsín, Rafael Lapesa, Rafael Moneo, Rafael Nadal, Rainer Weiss, Ralf Dahrendorf, Ramón Carande, Ray Tomlinson, Raymond Carr, Reinhard Mohn, Reinhold Messner, Ribadedeva, Ribera de Arriba, Ricardo Gullón, Ricardo Miledi, Riccardo Muti, Richard Ford, Richard Lerner, Richard Serra, Rigoberta Menchú, Robert Gallo, Robert S. Langer, Robert Weinberg, Roberto Matta, Royal Society, Royal Spanish Academy, Rwanda, Ryszard Kapuściński, Salvador Moncada, San Martín de Oscos, San Tirso de Abres, Santa Eulalia de Oscos, Santiago Calatrava, Sariego, Saskia Sassen, Save the Children, Science (journal), Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Sebastian Coe, Sebastião Salgado, Sephardi Jews, Sergey Bubka, Seve Ballesteros, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shuji Nakamura, Silvio Zavala, Simone Veil, Sito Pons, Sobrescobio, Somaly Mam, Somiedo, SOS Children's Villages, Soto de Luiña, Spain men's national basketball team, Spain national football team, Steffi Graf, Stephen Hawking, Sumio Iijima, Susan Sontag, Svante Pääbo, Sylvia Earle, Tamara Rojo, Tanzania, Teresa Berganza, Terracotta Army, Teverga, Tim Berners-Lee, Tineo, Tobin J. Marks, Torazu, Tour de France, Tzvetan Todorov, Umberto Eco, UNICEF, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Messengers of Peace, United Nations Protection Force, University of Coimbra, University of Salamanca, Valdés, Asturias, Valentin Fuster, Valeri Polyakov, Václav Havel, Vicariate of Solidarity, Vicente Ferrer Moncho, Victoria de los Ángeles, Villa El Salvador, Villanueva de Oscos, Villar de Vildas, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Vint Cerf, Vittorio Gassman, Vuelta (magazine), Wikipedia, William Kentridge, Woody Allen, World Health Organization, World Network of Biosphere Reserves, World Wide Fund for Nature, Xavi, Xi'an, Yad Vashem, Yasser Arafat, Yehudi Menuhin, Yelena Isinbayeva, Yitzhak Rabin, Zygmunt Bauman, 1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon. Expand index (365 more) »

Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski (born 21 June 1945 in Lwów) is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist.

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Adolfo Suárez

Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez, GE, KOGF, OCIII (25 September 1932 – 23 March 2014) was a Spanish lawyer and politician.

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Age of majority

The age of majority is the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law.

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Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine (born 3 August 1925) is a French sociologist.

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Alfredo Kraus

Alfredo Kraus Trujillo (24 November 192710 September 1999) was a distinguished Spanish tenor from the Canary islands (known professionally as Alfredo Kraus), particularly known for the artistry he brought to opera's bel canto roles.

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Alicia de Larrocha

Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle (23 May 192325 September 2009) was a Spanish pianist and composer.

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Aller

The Aller is a long river in the states of Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony in Germany.

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Alliance Française

L'Alliance Française (French Alliance), or AF, is an international organization that aims to promote French language and culture around the world.

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Alma Guillermoprieto

Alma Guillermoprieto (born May 27, 1949) is a Mexican journalist who has written extensively about Latin America for the British and American press.

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Amable Liñán

Amable Liñán Martínez (born Noceda de Cabrera, Castrillo de Cabrera, León, Spain in 1934) is a Spanish aeronautical engineer considered a world authority in the field of combustion.

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AmfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research

amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, (AMerican Foundation for Aids Research) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of AIDS-related public policy.

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Amieva

Amieva is a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias, Spain.

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Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf (أمين معلوف; born 25 February 1949) is an award-winning Lebanese-born French, Modern Arab writers.

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Amos Oz

Amos Oz (עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; May 4, 1939) is an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual.

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Amref Health Africa

Amref Health Africa (formerly the African Medical and Research Foundation – AMREF), was founded in 1957, by three surgeons as the Flying Doctors Service of East Africa.

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Annie Leibovitz

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer.

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Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies.

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Anthony R. Hunter

Anthony Rex Hunter (born 23 August 1943) is a British-American biologist who is a Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California San Diego.

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Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies (13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation.

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Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio (António Damásio) is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist.

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Antonio Domínguez Ortiz

Antonio Domínguez Ortiz (October 18, 1909 – January 21, 2003) was a Spanish historian, one of the leading specialists in the history of the Spanish Antiguo Régimen of the 16th through 18th centuries, in particular in social history.

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Antonio González, 1st Marquis of Valdeterrazo

Don Antonio González y González, 1st Marquis of Valdeterrazo (5 January 1792 in Valencia del Mombuey, Spain – 30 November 1876 in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish politician, diplomat and lawyer who served two times as Prime Minister of Spain in the reign of Isabella II, and was also President of the Congress of Deputies.

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Antonio López García

Antonio López García (born 6 January 1936) is a Spanish painter and sculptor, known for his realistic style.

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Antonio Muñoz Molina

Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 10 January 1956) is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former World No.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater.

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Arturo Uslar Pietri

Arturo Uslar Pietri (16 May 1906 in Caracas – 26 February 2001) was a Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, television producer and politician.

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Association of Academies of the Spanish Language

The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, ASALE) is an entity whose end is to work for the unity, integrity, and growth of the Spanish language.

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Asturias

Asturias (Asturies; Asturias), officially the Principality of Asturias (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies), is an autonomous community in north-west Spain.

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Atapuerca Mountains

The Atapuerca Mountains (Sierra de Atapuerca) is a karstic hill formation near the village of Atapuerca in Castile and León, northern Spain.

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Augusto Monterroso

Augusto Monterroso Bonilla (December 21, 1921 - February 7, 2003) was a Honduran writer who adopted Guatemalan nationality, known for the ironical and humorous style of his short stories.

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Avelino Corma Canos

Avelino Corma Canós (born December 15, 1951) is a Spanish chemist distinguished for his world-leading work on heterogeneous catalysis.

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Álvaro Mutis

Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist and author of the compendium The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll.

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Ángel González Muñiz

Ángel González Muñiz (6 September 1925 – 12 January 2008) was a major Spanish poet of the twentieth century.

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Íngrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (born 25 December 1961) is a Colombian-French politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist.

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Óscar Arias

Óscar Arias Sánchez (born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.

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Barbara Hendricks

Barbara Hendricks (born November 20, 1948) is an African-American operatic soprano and concert singer.

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Barry Barish

Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate.

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Basque Country (autonomous community)

The Basque Country (Euskadi; País Vasco; Pays Basque), officially the Basque Autonomous Community (Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa, EAE; Comunidad Autónoma Vasca, CAV) is an autonomous community in northern Spain.

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Belisario Betancur

Belisario Betancur Cuartas (born 4 February 1923) is a former Colombian politician and the 26th President of Colombia from 1982 to 1986.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Bert Vogelstein

Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is Director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), also known as the Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.

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Bill Drayton

William "Bill" Drayton (born in New York City, USA), is a social entrepreneur.

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Boal

Boal (Galician-Asturian: Bual) is a municipality, a civil parish and a town in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias (Spain).

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Kahn

Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.

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Brazil national football team

The Brazil national football team (Seleção Brasileira de Futebol) represents Brazil in international men's association football.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God

The Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God (officially the Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of Saint John of God; abbreviated as O.H.) are a Roman Catholic order founded in 1572.

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Burundi

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi (Republika y'Uburundi,; République du Burundi, or), is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

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Cabrales

Cabrales is a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias, northwestern Spain.

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Cabranes

Cabranes is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias.

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Caddy Adzuba

Caddy Adzuba (born 5 April 1981 Bukavu) is a Congolese Lawyer and journalist, and activist for women's rights.

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Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002) was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of Saint James among other names, is a network of pilgrims' ways serving pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saint are buried.

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Cangas de Onís

Cangas de Onís (Asturian: Cangues d'Onís) is a municipality in the eastern part of the province and autonomous community of Asturias in the northwest of Spain.

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Caritas Internationalis

Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 165 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.

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Carl Lewis

Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold.

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Carlo Maria Martini

Carlo Maria Martini, S.J. (15 February 1927 – 31 August 2012) was an Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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Carlos Bousoño

Carlos Bousoño (9 May 1923 – 24 October 2015) was a Spanish poet and literary critic.

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Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist.

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Carmen Martín Gaite

Carmen Martín Gaite (8 December 1925 – 23 July 2000) was a Spanish author.

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Caro and Cuervo Institute

The Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Caro and Cuervo Institute) is an educative center specialized in Spanish literature, philology and linguistics, oriented to research and promotion of the reading habits in Colombia.

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Castropol

Castropol is a municipality in Asturias, Spain.

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Central American University

José Simeón Cañas Central American University (Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"), also known as UCA El Salvador, is a private university with nonprofit purposes in San Salvador, El Salvador, run by the Society of Jesus.

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CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

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Chiaki Mukai

is a Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to spread Christianity.

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Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris (born April 10, 1939) is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.

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Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz

Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña (Madrid April 7, 1893 – Ávila July 8, 1984) was an eminent Spanish medieval historian, statesman, and president of the Spanish Republican government in Exile during the rule of Francisco Franco.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Colombres (Ribadedeva)

Colombres is one of three parishes (administrative divisions) in Ribadedeva, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Colunga

Colunga is a municipality in the Autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Contadora group

The Contadora Group was an initiative launched in the early 1980s by the foreign ministers of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela to deal with the Central American crisis (military conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala), which were threatening to destabilize the entire Central American region.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica ("Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island.

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Craig Venter

John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist, biochemist, geneticist, and businessman.

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Cudillero

Cudillero (Asturian: Cuideiru) is a small village and municipality in the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim (דניאל בארנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain.

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Dante Alighieri Society

The Dante Alighieri Society (Società Dante Alighieri) is a society that promotes Italian culture and language around the world.

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Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

The Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (Societas Filiarum Caritatis a S. Vincentio de Paulo), called in English the Daughters of Charity or Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul is a Society of Apostolic Life for women within the Catholic Church.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

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David Julius

David J. Julius (born November 4, 1955) is an American physiologist.

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Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer.

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Eduardo Chillida

Eduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in Basque, (10 January 1924 – 19 August 2002) was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his monumental abstract works.

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Eduardo García de Enterría

Eduardo García de Enterría y Martínez-Carande (27 April 1923 – 16 September 2013) was a Spanish jurist and a major contributor to the research and teaching of Public Law in Spain.

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Edward Said

Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.

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EFE

Agencia EFE, S.A. is a Spanish international news agency, the major multimedia news agency in Spanish language and the world's fourth largest wire service after the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.

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El Colegio de México

El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English: The College of Mexico) is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in social sciences and humanities.

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El Espectador

El Espectador (meaning "The Spectator") is a newspaper with national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on 22 March 1887 in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá.

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El País

El País (literally The Country) is the most read newspaper (231,140 printed copies) in Spain and the most circulated daily newspaper (180,765 circulation average), according to data certified by the Office of Justification of Dissemination (OJD) and referring to the period of January 2017 to December 2017.

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El Sistema

El Sistema is a publicly financed voluntary sector music education program in Venezuela, founded in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician and activist José Antonio AbreuLesniak which later adopted the motto "Music for Social Change".

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El Tiempo (Colombia)

El Tiempo (The Time) is a nationally distributed, broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia.

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Emilio García Gómez

Emilio García Gómez, 1st Count of Alixares (4 June 1905 – 31 May 1995) was a Spanish Arabist, literary historian and critic, whose talent as a poet enriched his many translations from Arabic.

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Emilio Lledó

Emilio Lledó Íñigo (Seville, 5 November 1927) is a Spanish philosopher.

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Emilio Rosenblueth

Emilio Rosenblueth Deutsch (1926–1994) was a Mexican engineer who devoted himself to the research of seismic events, and in particular to study the behavior of buildings against earthquakes and other seismic activity.

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Emma Bonino

Emma Bonino (born 9 March 1948 in Bra) is an Italian politician, she is currently a Senator for Rome.

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry.

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Enrique Fuentes Quintana

Enrique Fuentes Quintana (13 December 1924 – 6 June 2007) was a significant Spanish economist, academic and politician, who served as deputy prime minister of Spain between 1977 and 1979 in the first cabinet after the Francoist State.

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Enrique V. Iglesias

Enrique Valentín Iglesias García, KOGF (born 29 March 1930 in Arancedo, Asturias) is an economist of Uruguayan-Spanish dual citizenship.

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Erasmus Programme

The Erasmus Programme (EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) is a European Union (EU) student exchange programme established in 1987.

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Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo, FBA (born 25 October 1972) is a French American economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Eusebio Sempere

Eusebio Sempere (3 April 192310 April 1985) was a Spanish sculptor, painter and graphic artist whose abstract geometric works make him the most representative artist of the Kinetic art movement in Spain and one of Spain's foremost artists.

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F. W. de Klerk

Frederik Willem de Klerk (born 18 March 1936) is a South African politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996.

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Fatema Mernissi

Fatema Mernissi (فاطمة مرنيسي; 27 September 1940 – 30 November 2015) was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.

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Fatiha Boudiaf

Fatiha Boudiaf (November 28, 1944 in Oran) is an Algerian activist, widow and second wife of former Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf.

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Felipe VI of Spain

Felipe VI (Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is the King of Spain.

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Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso Díaz (born 29 July 1981) is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and two-time world champion who is currently racing for McLaren F1 team.

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Fernando Fernán Gómez

Fernando Fernández Gómez (28 August 1921 – 21 November 2007) better known as Fernando Fernán-Gómez was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director and member of the Royal Spanish Academy for seven years.

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born June 18, 1931), also known by his initials FHC, is a Brazilian sociologist, professor and politician who served as the 34th President of Brazil from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2003.

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Fondo de Cultura Económica

Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE or simply “Fondo”) is a Spanish language, non-profit publishing group, partly founded by the Mexican government.

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François Englert

François Baron Englert (born 6 November 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel prize laureate (shared with Peter Higgs).

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Francis Collins

Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer.

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Francisco Ayala (novelist)

Francisco Ayala García-Duarte (16 March 1906 – 3 November 2009) was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.

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Francisco Bolívar Zapata

Francisco Gonzalo Bolívar Zapata (born March 1948, in Mexico City) is a Mexican biochemist and professor.

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Francisco Javier Gómez Noya

Francisco Javier Gómez Noya (born 25 March 1983) is a Spanish triathlete.

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Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza (Cáseda, 12 October 1918 - Madrid, 18 July 2000) was a Spanish architect and influential practitioner of the modernist movement in Spain.

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Francisco Nieva

Francisco Morales Nieva (29 December 1924 – 10 November 2016) was a Spanish playwright.

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Francisco Umbral

Francisco Umbral (born Francisco Pérez Martínez) (11 May 1932 – 28 August 2007) was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.

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Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry,, FAIA (born Frank Owen Goldberg)Reinhart, Anthony (July 28, 2010), Globe and Mail is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles.

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Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 7 June 1957 in Paris), a French historian, archaeologist and novelist.

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Fukushima 50

Fukushima 50 is the pseudonym given by the media to a group of employees at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs whose goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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Galen D. Stucky

Galen D. Stucky is an American inorganic materials chemist noted for his work with porous ordered mesoporous materials such as SBA-15.He won the Prince of Asturias Award in 2014, in the Scientific and Technological Research area.

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Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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George M. Whitesides

George McClelland Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University.

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George Steiner

Francis George Steiner, FBA (born April 23, 1929) is a French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti (born April 28, 1937) is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma.

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Ginés Morata

Ginés Morata Pérez ForMemRS is Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain and an expert in developmental biology of the fruitfly fruit fly (''Drosophila''), a specialty he has worked on for over 40 years.

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Giovanni Sartori

Giovanni Sartori (13 May 1924 – 4 April 2017) was an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics.

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Goethe-Institut

The Goethe-Institut (GI, "Goethe Institute") is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations.

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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (June 13, 1910 – January 27, 1999) was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Graça Machel

Graça Machel (née Simbine,, 17 October 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian.

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Graciano García García

Graciano García García (born in Moreda (Asturias) on 12 October 1939) is a Spanish Journalist.

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Grandas de Salime

Grandas de Salime is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Greg Winter

Sir Gregory Paul Winter (born 14 April 1951) is a British biochemist, a pioneer of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.

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Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity

The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (in Spanish: Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, URNG-MAIZ or most commonly URNG) is a Guatemalan political party that started as a guerrilla movement but laid down its arms in 1996 and became a legal political party in 1998 after the peace process which ended the Guatemalan Civil War.

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Guido Münch

Guido Münch Paniagua (born June 9, 1921) is a Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist.

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Gustavo Gutiérrez

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino (born 8 June 1928) is a Peruvian philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest regarded as one of the founders of liberation theology.

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Haile Gebrselassie

Haile Gebrselassie (ኃይሌ ገብረ ሥላሴ, haylē gebre silassē; born 18 April 1973) is a retired Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete.

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Hamilton O. Smith

Hamilton Othanel Smith (born August 23, 1931) is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929 in Kaufbeuren) is a German author, poet, translator and editor.

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Hans-Dietrich Genscher

Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as the Minister of the Interior of West Germany from 1969 to 1974, and as the Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of West Germany and then the reunified Germany from 1974 to 1992 (except for a two-week break in 1982), making him the longest-serving occupant of either post.

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Hassiba Boulmerka

Hassiba Boulmerka (حسيبة بولمرقة, born July 10, 1968) is a former Algerian middle distance athlete.

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Helmut Kohl

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German statesman who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany 1982–1990 and of the reunited Germany 1990–1998) and as the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998.

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Hicham El Guerrouj

Hicham El Guerrouj (Moroccan Arabic: هشام الݣروج, Hishāmu l-Karrūj; Berber: Hicam El Gerruj, ⵀⵉⵛⴰⵎ ⴻⵍ ⴳⴻⵔⵔⵓⵊ; born 14 September 1974) is a retired Moroccan middle-distance runner.

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Hispanic Society of America

The Hispanic Society of America is a museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain and Portugal and their former colonies in Latin America, the Philippines and Portuguese India.

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Howard Gardner

Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.

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Hugh Herr

Hugh Herr (born October 25, 1964) is an American rock climber, engineer, and biophysicist.

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Hussein of Jordan

Hussein bin Talal (الحسين بن طلال, Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāl; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) reigned as King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death.

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Ibias

Ibias is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Ifakara Health Institute

The Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a health research organization with offices in Ifakara, Dar es Salaam, Ikwiriri, Bagamoyo, and Mtwara, Tanzania.

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Iker Casillas

Iker Casillas Fernández (born 20 May 1981) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Porto.

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Indro Montanelli

Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli Knight Grand Cross OMRI (22 April 1909 – 22 July 2001) was an Italian journalist and historian.

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Instituto Camões

The Instituto Camões (English: Camões Institute) is an institution created in 1992 for the worldwide promotion of the Portuguese language and culture.

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Instituto Cervantes

The Cervantes Institute is a worldwide non-profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991.

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Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) is the national institute for biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 17 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare (also spelled Kadaré; born 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist and playwright.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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Jacinto Convit

Jacinto Convit García (11 September 1913 – 12 May 2014) was a Venezuelan physician and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to fight leprosy and his studies to cure different types of cancer.

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Jacques Delors

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925) is a French politician who served as the 8th President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995.

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Jacques Santer

Jacques Santer (born 18 May 1937) is a Luxembourg politician who served as the 9th President of the European Commission from 1995 to 1999.

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James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey (born March 14, 1948) is an American photojournalist and war photographer.

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Jane Goodall

Dame Jane Morris Goodall (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is a British primatologist and anthropologist.

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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra KCMG (born January 19, 1920) is a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1991.

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Javier Sotomayor

Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (born October 13, 1967) is a Cuban former track and field athlete, who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder.

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Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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Jean Daniel

Jean Daniel, (né Jean Daniel Bensaid) (born 21 July 1920) is an Algerian-born French-Jewish journalist and author.

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Jean Weissenbach

Jean Weissenbach (born 13 February 1946) is the current director of the Genoscope.

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Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Anne Doudna (born 19 February 1964) is an American biochemist, professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Jesús López Cobos

Jesús López Cobos (25 February 1940 – 2 March 2018) was a Spanish conductor.

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Joan Massagué

Joan Massagué (born April 30, 1953 in Barcelona), is a biologist and the current director of the Sloan Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

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Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez (22 November 1901 – 6 July 1999), commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist.

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Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão

Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão (born July 8, 1925 in Tremês, Portugal) is a Portuguese historian.

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John Banville

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who sometimes writes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.

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John Elliott (historian)

Sir John Huxtable Elliott, (born 23 June 1930) is a British historian, Regius Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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John Glenn

Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio.

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John Sulston

Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz.

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Jordan

Jordan (الْأُرْدُنّ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River.

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Jorge Oteiza

Jorge Oteiza Enbil (October 21, 1908 – April 9, 2003), was a Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer, renowned for being one of the main theorists on Basque modern art.

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José Carreras

José Carreras, is the stage name of Josep Maria Carreras i Coll (born 5 December 1946), a tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini.

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José Ferrater Mora

José Ferrater Mora or Josep Ferrater i Mora (in Catalan) (30 October 1912 – 30 January 1991) was a Spanish philosopher.

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José Hierro

José Hierro del Real (born April 3, 1922 in Madrid, Spain – died December 21, 2002 in Madrid, Spain), sometimes colloquially called Pepe Hierro, was a Spanish poet.

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José López Portillo

José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco, RSerafO (June 16, 1920 – February 17, 2004) was a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 51st President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.

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José María Olazábal

José María Olazábal Manterola (born 5 February 1966) is a Spanish professional golfer from the Basque region who has enjoyed success on both the European Tour and the PGA Tour, and has won two major championships, both at The Masters.

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Joseph Altman

Joseph Altman (1925 – 2016) was an American biologist who worked in the field of neurobiology.

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Joseph Pérez

Joseph Pérez (born January 14, 1931) is a French historian specializing in Spanish history.

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Juan Antonio Samaranch, 1st Marquess of Samaranch

Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch (17 July 1920 – 21 April 2010) was a Spanish sports administrator and minister of sports under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh President of the IOC (IOC) from 1980 to 2001.

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Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (born 11 October 1965) is a Spanish physicist.

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Juan José Linz

Juan José Linz (24 December 1926 – 1 October 2013) was a Spanish sociologist and political scientist.

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Juan Rulfo

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer.

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Judah Folkman

Moses Judah Folkman (February 24, 1933 – January 14, 2008) was an American medical scientist best known for his research on tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence.

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Julián Marías

Julián Marías Aguilera (17 June 1914 – 15 December 2005) was a Spanish philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Julio Caro Baroja

Julio Caro Baroja (13 November 1914 – 18 August 1995) was a world-renowned Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.

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Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong, (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.

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Kip Thorne

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.

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Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor.

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Krzysztof Wielicki

Krzysztof Wielicki (born January 5, 1950 in Szklarka Przygodzicka, municipality Ostrzeszów, Poland) is a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber, regarded as one of the greatest Polish climbers in history.

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Lance Armstrong

Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971) is a former American professional road racing cyclist.

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Lastres

Lastres, in Asturian and officially named Llastres, is one of 13 parishes (administrative divisions) in the Colunga municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Lawrence Roberts (scientist)

Lawrence G. Roberts (born December 21, 1937 in Connecticut) is an American scientist who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet", and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002.

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Lena, Asturias

Lena (Asturian: Ḷḷena) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Leonardo Padura Fuentes

Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist.

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Leonor, Princess of Asturias

Leonor, Princess of Asturias (born 31 October 2005) is the heir presumptive to the throne of Spain as the elder daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia.

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Les Luthiers

Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries including Paraguay, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba, Costa Rica and Venezuela.

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LIGO

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool.

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List of awards

A list of orders, medals, prizes, and other awards, of military, civil, and ecclesiastical conferees.

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Llanes

Llanes (the Concejo de Llanes, Conceyu de Llanes in Asturian language) is a municipality of the province of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Luc Montagnier

Luc Antoine Montagnier (born 18 August 1932) is a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Luis Díez del Corral

Luis Díez del Corral y Pedruzo (5 July 1911, in Logroño – 7 April 1998, in Madrid) was a Spanish jurist, writer and political scientist.

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Luis García Berlanga

Luis García-Berlanga Martí (12 June 1921 – 13 November 2010) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), popularly known as Lula, is a Brazilian politician and former union leader, who served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.

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Manuel Ballester

Manuel Ballester Boix (born in Barcelona on June 27, 1919; died April 5, 2005) was a Spanish chemist.

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Manuel Cardona

Manuel Cardona Castro (7 September 1934 – 2 July 2014) was a physicist.

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Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born November 3, 1946)Fundación Príncipe de Asturias.

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Manuel Estiarte

Manel Estiarte Duocastella (born October 26, 1961 in Manresa) is a Spanish former water polo player born in Manresa, a municipality in Barcelona, Spain.

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María Zambrano

María Zambrano Alarcón (22 April 1904, in Vélez-Málaga – 6 February 1991, in Madrid) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Marc Gasol

Marc Gasol Sáez (born January 29, 1985) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Marcos Moshinsky

Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky (Маркос Мошинский Бородянский; Маркос Мошинскі; 1921–2009) was a Mexican physicist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin whose work in the field of elementary particles won him the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1988 and the UNESCO Science Prize in 1997.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.

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Mario Bunge

Mario Augusto Bunge (born September 21, 1919) is an Argentine philosopher, philosopher of science and physicist mainly active in Canada.

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor.

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Mark E. Davis

Mark E. Davis Ph.D. is the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology and a member of the City of Hope National Medical Center.

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Martí de Riquer i Morera

Martí de Riquer i Morera, 8th Count of Casa Dávalos (Martín de Riquer y Morera) (3 May 1914 – 17 September 2013) was a Spanish–Catalan literary historian and Romance philologist, a recognised international authority in the field.

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Martha Nussbaum

Martha Craven Nussbaum (born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the Law School and the Philosophy department.

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Martin Cooper (inventor)

Martin "Marty" Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova (Martina Navrátilová; born Martina Šubertová; October 18, 1956) is a former Czechoslovak and later American professional tennis player and coach.

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Mary Beard (classicist)

Dame Winifred Mary Beard, (born 1 January 1955) is an English scholar and classicist.

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Mary Robinson

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (née Bourke; Máire Bean Mhic Róibín; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish Independent politician who served as the 7th President of Ireland, she was the first female to hold this office.

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Max Planck Society

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and renamed the Max Planck Society in 1948 in honor of its former president, theoretical physicist Max Planck.

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Maya Plisetskaya

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Ма́йя Миха́йловна Плисе́цкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress, who held in post-Soviet times Spanish and Lithuanian citizenship.

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Mário Soares

Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL (7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.

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Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced), also known in English as Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin best known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.

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Medicus Mundi International

Medicus Mundi International (MMI) is the Network of private not-for-profit organisations working in the field of international health cooperation and advocacy.

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Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke (born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for films such as Funny Games (1997), Caché (2005), The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012).

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Michael J. Sandel

Michael J. Sandel (born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher.

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Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher (born 3 January 1969) is a retired German racing driver who raced in Formula One for Jordan Grand Prix, Benetton and Ferrari, where he spent the majority of his career, as well as for Mercedes upon his return to the sport.

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Miguel Delibes

Miguel Delibes Setién MML (17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Miguel Induráin

Miguel Induráin Larraya (born 16 July 1964) is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.

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Miquel Barceló

Miquel Barceló Artigues (born 1957) is a Spanish painter from Felanitx, Majorca.

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Monarchy of Spain

The monarchy of Spain (Monarquía de España), constitutionally referred to as the Crown (La Corona), is a constitutional institution and historic office of Spain.

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Montserrat Caballé

Montserrat Caballé (born 12 April 1933) is a Spanish operatic soprano.

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Morcín

Morcín is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Moreda, Aller

Moreda (Asturian name: Morea, and officially Morea / Moreda) is one of 18 parishes (administrative divisions) in Aller, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique (Moçambique or República de Moçambique) is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič,; 27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor.

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Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus (মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস; born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.

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National Autonomous University of Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, - literal translation: Autonomous National University of Mexico, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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National Transplant Organization

The National Transplant Organization (Organización Nacional de Trasplantes, ONT) is an institution belonging to the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, put in charge of developing the competencies related with provision and clinical utilization of organs, tissues and cells.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.

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Nava, Asturias

Nava is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Navelgas

Navelgas (Miñu) is one of 44 parishes (administrative divisions) in Tineo, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Navia, Asturias

Navia is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Nélida Piñon

Nelida Pinon Nélida Piñon (born May 3, 1937) is a Brazilian author and professor.

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Núria Espert

Núria Espert Romero (born Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain June 11, 1935) is a theatre and television Spanish actress, theatre and opera director.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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New York City Marathon

The New York City Marathon (branded TCS New York City Marathon and formerly branded ING New York City Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon that courses through the five boroughs of New York City.

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New Zealand national rugby union team

The New Zealand national rugby union team, called the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport.

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Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect whose company, Foster + Partners, maintains an international design practice famous for high-tech architecture.

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Novellana

Novellana is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in the Cudillero municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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O Globo

O Globo (The Globe) is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat.

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Olayinka Koso-Thomas

Olayinka Koso-Thomas (born 1937) is a Nigerian-born doctor who lives in Sierra Leone.

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Onís

Onís is a municipality and a parish in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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ONCE

Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE) (National Organization of Spanish blind people) is a Spanish foundation founded on December 13, 1938, to raise funds to provide services for the blind and people with serious visual impairment.

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Orfeón Donostiarra

The Orfeón Donostiarra is a concert choir based in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.

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Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15, 1907 – December 5, 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.

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Oviedo

Oviedo or Uviéu (officially in Asturian) is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain and the administrative and commercial centre of the region.

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Pablo García Baena

Pablo García Baena (29 June 1921 – 14 January 2018) was a Spanish poet.

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Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty

Pablo Rudomin Zevnovaty, PhD (born 1934 in Mexico City) is a Mexican neuroscientist.

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Pablo Serrano

Pablo Serrano Aguilar, (8 March 1908, Crivillén, Teruel Province - 26 November 1985, Madrid) was a Spanish abstract sculptor.

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Paco de Lucía

Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez (21 December 194725 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.

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Paris Agreement

The Paris Agreement (Accord de Paris) is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance starting in the year 2020.

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Pau Gasol

Pau Gasol Sáez (born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning.

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Paul Krugman

Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist who is currently Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times.

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Peñamellera Baja

Peñamellera Baja (in Asturian: El Valle Baḥu de Peñamellera) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949), credited professionally as Pedro Almodóvar, is a Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and former actor.

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Pedro Duque

Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer, currently serving as Spain's Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities.

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Pedro Laín Entralgo

Pedro Laín Entralgo (15 February 1908 – 5 June 2001) was a Spanish medical researcher.

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Pedro Miguel Etxenike

Pedro Miguel Etxenike Landiribar, also known as Pedro Miguel Echenique (born 8 June 1950, Isaba, Navarre), is a scientist specialising in Solid State Physics.

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Peter Anthony Lawrence

Peter Anthony Lawrence (born 23 June 1941) is a British developmental biologist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the Zoology Department of the University of Cambridge.

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Peter Higgs

Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor in the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008) Edit the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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Pierre Werner

Pierre Werner (29 December 1913 – 24 June 2002) was a Luxembourg politician in the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) who was Prime Minister from 1959 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1984.

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Pilar Lorengar

Lorenza Pilar García Seta (January 16, 1928June 2, 1996) was a Spanish (Aragonese) soprano who used the professional name Pilar Lorengar.

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Plácido Domingo

José Plácido Domingo Embil, (born 21 January 1941), known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, conductor and arts administrator.

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Politics of Guatemala

Politics of Guatemala takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, where by the President of Guatemala is both head of state, head of government, and of a multi-party system.

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Porrúa (Llanes)

Porrúa is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Llanes, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Puerto de Vega

Puerto de Vega is one of eight parishes (administrative divisions) in Navia, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Quino

Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his pen name Quino (born 17 July 1932), is an Argentine cartoonist.

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Raúl Alfonsín

Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín Foulkes (12 March 1927 – 31 March 2009) was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as the President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989.

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Rafael Lapesa

Rafael Lapesa Melgar (1908–2001) was a Spanish philologist, a historian of language and of Spanish literature.

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Rafael Moneo

José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born 9 May 1937) is a Spanish architect.

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Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently world No. 1 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

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Rainer Weiss

Rainer "Rai" Weiss (born September 29, 1932) is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.

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Ralf Dahrendorf

Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician.

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Ramón Carande

Ramón Carande (May 4, 1887 - September 1, 1986) was a Spanish historian.

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Ray Tomlinson

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; he is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email.

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Raymond Carr

Sir (Albert) Raymond Maillard Carr, FBA, FRHS, FRSL (11 April 1919 – 19 April 2015) was an English historian specializing in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden.

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Reinhard Mohn

Reinhard Mohn (29 June 1921 – 3 October 2009) was a German businessman who turned Bertelsmann, a "provincial, war-shattered German publisher", into the sixth-largest media conglomerate in the world.

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Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner (born 17 September 1944) is an Italian mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the bilingual Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Ribadedeva

Ribadedeva (Asturian and Cantabrian: Ribedeva) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

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Ribera de Arriba

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Ricardo Gullón

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Ricardo Miledi

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Riccardo Muti

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Richard Ford

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Richard Lerner

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Richard Serra

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Robert Gallo

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Robert S. Langer

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Robert Weinberg

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Royal Spanish Academy

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San Martín de Oscos

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San Tirso de Abres

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Santa Eulalia de Oscos

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Santiago Calatrava

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Sariego

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Saskia Sassen

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Save the Children

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Sebastian Coe

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Sebastião Salgado

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Sergey Bubka

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Seve Ballesteros

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Shigeru Miyamoto

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Shuji Nakamura

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Silvio Zavala

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Simone Veil

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Sito Pons

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Sobrescobio

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Somiedo

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Soto de Luiña

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Spain men's national basketball team

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Steffi Graf

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Stephen Hawking

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Sumio Iijima

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Susan Sontag

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Tamara Rojo

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Tanzania

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Teresa Berganza

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Teverga

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Tineo

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Tobin J. Marks

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Torazu

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Tzvetan Todorov

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UNICEF

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Valentin Fuster

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Victoria de los Ángeles

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Villar de Vildas

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Vint Cerf

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William Kentridge

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Woody Allen

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World Health Organization

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World Wide Fund for Nature

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Xavi

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Xi'an

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Yad Vashem

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Yasser Arafat

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Yehudi Menuhin

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Yelena Isinbayeva

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Yitzhak Rabin

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Zygmunt Bauman

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1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

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References

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