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  2. Martin Schwartz (mercenary) - Wikipedia

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    Martin Schwartz (died 16 June 1487) was a German mercenary who died at the Battle of Stoke Field while fighting for Lambert Simnel, a Yorkist pretender to the English throne. Schwartz was born in Augsburg, the son of a shoemaker. Able but arrogant, [1] he rose to become a major military entrepreneur, organising mercenary soldiers to fight in ...

  3. Tony Curtis - Wikipedia

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    Awards. American Campaign Medal. Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. World War II Victory Medal. Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in roles ...

  4. Martin S. Schwartz - Wikipedia

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    ISBN 0-88730-956-9. Martin S. Schwartz ( Buzzy, born March 23, 1945) [1] is a Wall Street trader who made his fortune successfully trading stocks, futures and options. He received national attention when he won the U.S. Investing Championship in 1984. Schwartz is the author of Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader .

  5. George Shultz - Wikipedia

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    George Pratt Shultz ( / ʃʊlts / SHUULTS; December 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman. He served in various positions under two different Republican presidents and is one of the only two persons to have held four different Cabinet -level posts, the other being Elliot Richardson. [1]

  6. Sherwood Schwartz - Wikipedia

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    Sherwood Charles Schwartz (/ ʃ w ɔːr t s /; November 14, 1916 – July 12, 2011) was an American television screenwriter and producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, but he now is best known for creating the 1960s television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC .

  7. State funeral of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    The state funeral of U.S. President John F. Kennedy took place in Washington, D.C., during the three days that followed his assassination on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. [1] Kennedy's body was brought back to Washington after his assassination. Early on November 23, six military pallbearers carried the flag-draped coffin into ...

  8. Living funeral - Wikipedia

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    A living funeral, also called a pre-funeral, is a funeral held for a living person. It may be important to the person's psychological state and also that of the dying person's family to attend the living funeral. It is also sometimes used as a time to read the will and explain the reasons behind some of the decisions contained within it.

  9. Elmer's Tune - Wikipedia

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    At the time, he was a student at the Worsham College of Embalming in Chicago and worked at Louis Cohen’s funeral parlor on Clark Street. According to Albrecht, he originally worked out the tune on a piano in a back room of the funeral parlor which at the time held the corpses of twelve men killed in Chicago’s Tong Wars.