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    Dreher, Robert Edward (1970). Arthur de Gobineau: An Intellectual Portrait. University of Wisconsin. "Arthur de Gobineau | French diplomat, writer, and...
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  • Leticia de Souza (Sophomore), Stanford University in Stanford, CA (eliminated after the entrée) Donny Enriquez (Junior), University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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    Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas Minnesota Iowa Missouri Arkansas Louisiana Wisconsin Illinois Michigan Indiana Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Miss. Ala. Maine Vermont...
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    the Comte de Buffon, Jean-François Marmontel, Melchior Grimm, Edward Gibbon, the Abbé Raynal, Jean-François de la Harpe, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre...
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    made by the Swiss violin-maker Michael Rhonheimer [de]. One of Rhonheimer's violins, made with wood that the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science...
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    Allene Tew (category People from Janesville, Wisconsin)
    a European aristocrat by marriage. Allene Tew was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, on July 7, 1872. Her father, Charles Henry Tew, was a banker in Jamestown...
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    Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc (category Native American people from Wisconsin)
    Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc (c. 1712 in Wisconsin?, French Louisiana – 15 December 1775 in Paris, France) was a feral child of 18th century France...
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  • first postmaster) Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives) Camp Pardee...
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    monk parakeet was described by French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also...
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    Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish...
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