Ancient Iceland settlers had even split of Norse and Gaelic ancestry

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Hessy Levinsons Taft (born May 17, 1934) is a woman born to Jewish parents in Berlin. She was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda, after her photo won a contest to find "the most beautiful Aryan baby" in 1935. Taft's image became one of the most subversive…

Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor and occasional actor, best known as the voice of both Fred Jones and Scooby-Doo from the Scooby-Doo franchise (the former since the franchise's inception in 1969 and the latter since…

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The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; c. 1640 – 19 November 1703) is the name given to an unidentified prisoner who was arrested in 1669 or 1670 and subsequently held in a number of French prisons, including the Bastille and the Fortress…

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), also known as the "Red Baron", was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World War I. He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat…

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Major Francis Edward Foley CMG (24 November 1884, Highbridge, Somerset – 8 May 1958, Stourbridge, Worcestershire) was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer. As a passport control officer for the British embassy in Berlin, Foley "bent the rules" and…

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Leon Gary Plauché (November 10, 1945 – October 20, 2014) was an American man known for the 1984 vigilante killing of Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped and sexually assaulted his son, Jody Plauché. The killing occurred on Friday, March 16, 1984, and was captured…