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Edoardo Federico De Martino was an Italian painter, mainly active in London as a painter of warships and marine battles.

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François Flameng (1856–1923) was a very successful French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. He was the son of a celebrated engraver and received a first-rate education in his craft.

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Célestin Hennion CVO was a French police officer who rose to head the Prefecture of Police. He was responsible for the reorganisation of the Préfecture and the introduction of the Brigades du Tigre, ancestor of the French judicial police. In France, he is considered to be one of the pioneers of modern policing.

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Kolomeitsev, also spelt Kolomeytsev was a naval officer of the Russian Empire and Arctic explorer.

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Karl Lueger was an Austrian politician, mayor of Vienna, and leader and founder of the Austrian Christian Social Party. He is credited with the transformation of the city of Vienna into a modern city. The populist and antisemitic politics of his Christian Social Party are sometimes viewed as a model for Adolf Hitler's Nazism.

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Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He was also an amateur swordsman, competing in the 1896 Athens Olympics. He also served in the Organizing Committee for the 1906 Intercalated Games.

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Mohamed Bolkiah is a member of the royal family of Brunei. He is the second son of Omar Ali Saifuddien III, the 28th Sultan of Brunei, and Raja Isteri (Queen) Pengiran Anak Damit. He is the Head of the Brunei’s Viziers. After Brunei’s independence in 1984, he became the country’s first foreign minister, serving from 1984 until 22 October 2015. He served in the cabinet as the Minister of the Brunei's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade alongside the second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Lim Jock Seng.

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Vizeadmiral Hubert von Rebeur-Paschwitz was a German admiral. In 1899 he served as the German Naval attaché to Washington and later in 1912 commanded a flotilla of German vessels that visited the United States. During World War I he was transferred to the Black Sea in order to command the Central Powers naval forces that had previously been under the command of Admiral Souchon who had been recalled to the High Seas Fleet in 1917. Rebeur-Paschwitz decided to launch an offensive into the Mediterranean Sea which ended in his defeat at the Battle of Imbros.

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Charlotte Mailliard Shultz is an American heiress and socialite. She is the Chief of Protocol for the state of California, and the Chief of Protocol for the City and County of San Francisco. She was married to former United States Secretary of State George P. Shultz, from 1997 until his death in 2021.

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Laurits Regner Tuxen was a Danish painter and sculptor specialising in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

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Ármin Vámbéry, also known as Arminius Vámbéry, was a Hungarian Turkologist and traveller.

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Zeid Ibn Shaker, GBE, CVO served as commander-in-chief of the Jordanian military for more than twelve years and Prime Minister of Jordan three times. King Hussein awarded him the non-hereditary title prince on 4 February 1996.