Phyllis Ayame Whitney

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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Born	September 9, 1903 • Yokohama • Japan
Died	February 8, 2008 (aged 104) • Virginia

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James Patterson

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Ira Levin

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Lynd Ward

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