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Categories 101-300
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| Afghanistan |
Measuring devices and devisers, direction indicators, units used in technology, inventors of measuring instruments |
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| Africa (sub-Saharan), explorers (pre-countries) |
Media personalities (not press, broadcasting) - advertisers, creations, public opinion monitors, PR, press advisers, postal personnel |
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| Air personalities - pioneers, pilots, designers |
Medical researchers (bacteriologists, virologists, immunologists, medical geneticists, medical technologists) |
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| Airforce personalities - marshals, wartime aviators, pilots, airmen |
Medics pre-17th-century |
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| Algeria |
Medieval philosophers, including late Dark Ages |
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| American football |
Mexico |
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| Anatomists, embryologists, physiognomists, microscopists, histologists |
Middle East - Egyptians, Alexandrians, Byzantines (up to 1300), Carthaginians, Persians, Assyrians, Israelis, Ottomans, Achaemenids, Attalids |
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| Ancient wars topics and personalities - BC, Roman Britain, Punic, Dark Ages |
Military engineers, administrators, architects, journalists, war correspondents, artists, editors |
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| Animated film-makers, cartoonists, cartoons |
Minerals and metals, prospectors, mines |
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| Antiquaries, antiques experts, antiquity hunters |
Missionaries, evangelists, apostles |
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| Archaeologists, Egyptologists, Assyriologists, relevant chemists, artists |
Motor-racing, drag racing, karting, rallying, stock-car racing, gymkhana (US) |
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| Arctic and its exploration |
New Zealand |
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| Argentina |
New Zealand, New Zealand External Territories |
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| Art theorists, historians, critics, writers, dealers, publishers, teachers, auctioneers |
North American history - general topics, broad locations - pre-history, pre USA/Canada divide, explorers |
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| Asian history - general topics, broad locations |
Northern Ireland |
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| Association football |
Norway |
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| Attorney generals (including assistants), state attorneys, district attorneys, solicitors general |
Novel and novella |
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| Australia |
Nuclear power devices, locations, processes, physicists |
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| Bacteriologists, virologists, immunologists, and relevant biophysicists, biochemists, pathologists, microbiologists, physiologists, molecular biologists |
Nurses, carers, midwives, health enthusiasts, medical administrators |
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| Ballet dancers (classical), choreographers, masters, directors, notators, teachers, founders, impresarios, designers |
Nutritionists, chefs, food presenters, cookery writers, food scientists, brewers, wine merchants, food geneticists, food manufacturers, millers, temperance agitators |
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| Baseball |
Oceanographers, hydrographers, marine explorers / geologists / biologists |
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| Basketball |
Oral fluency/skill in one's own language - rhetoricians (not modern profs of rhetoric), orators, specific sayings, prayers, texts, toastmasters, after-dinner and other features of everyday speech* |
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| Biblical scholars, translators, and writers |
Ornithologists, bird artists, source of bird names |
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| Bibliographers, librarians, book antiquarians / collectors, founders |
Other ancient European locations - Germanic locations, Gaul, Iberia, Malta, Britain |
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| Biochemistry and biochemists |
Pacifists, peace campaigners, Nobel Peace Prize winners, disarmament campaigners |
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| Botanists, plant physiologists, photographers, plant artists, horticulturalists, agronomists, gardeners, herbalists, orchardists |
Pakistan |
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| Boxing |
Palaeontologists, palaeobotanists, palaeoanthropologists, fossil geologists, fossil anthropologists |
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| Brazil |
Personalities - agriculturists, farmers, horticulturists, plant breeders, agronomists, farm workers, ranchers, land agents, vintners, orchardists, agricultural writers |
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| Broadcasting personalities - television/radio newsreaders, reporters, journalists, correspondents, executives, commentators, presenters (excluding artists) |
Personalities - executives, moguls, critics, censors, founders, non-acting/producing people (designers) |
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| Canada |
Personalities - founders of schools of thought, founders of theatres, critics, impressarios, theorists, teachers, administrators, and other non-acting/directing contributors (eg photographers, designers) |
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| Cartography and cartographers |
Personalities - founders, critics, pioneers, and non-acting/producing people (eg publishers, ratings) |
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| Cartoonists, strips, characters |
Personalities in decorative arts and crafts, designers (unspecified), interior designers/decorators (excludes other DECO categories) |
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| Characters, writers |
Pharmacists, pharmacologists, some biochemists, bacteriologists, microbiologists, toxicologists |
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| Chess, shogi |
Photographers, photomonteurs, photojournalists |
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| China |
Photographic and optical devices, processes, including cinema, cameras, screens, technical effects, video, technical designers, inventors |
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| Classical philosophers (BC) and early centuries AD |
Physiologists, neurophysiologists, cytologists, some biochemists, unusual births (quins) |
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| Climatologists, meteorologists, relevant physicists, weathermen |
Political journalists (press and media) and cartoonists |
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| Conductors |
Political scientists, philosophers, academics, theorists, ideologists, diplomatic historians |
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| Courtiers, court functionaries, favourites, pretenders, ladies-in-waiting, ushers, chamberlains |
Popes |
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| Cricket |
Portugal, Azores, Madeira, Macao |
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| Criminal personalities, named groups (acquitted or not) - murderers, assassins, thieves, forgers, swindler, bribers, blackmailers, corrupters, fraudsters, embezzlers, pirates, gangsters, outlaws, sex offenders, highwaymen, bandits, brigands, bombers, drug |
Positions in society, officials, listings, genealogists, social groups, socialites, dandies, hostesses, etiquette writers, salons, courtesans, beggars, marital status* |
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| Croatia |
Pottery, porcelain, ceramics, china, potters |
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| Cuba |
Preachers |
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| Curators, directors, administrators, founders of museums, collections, philanthropists, patrons |
Printing personalities - printers, inventors, type designers, typographers, book designers |
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| Czech Republic |
Producers, directors, editors |
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| Dancers (modern) and choreographers, stage, opera, experimental, dance theatre, butoh, theorists, collectors |
Psychiatrists, clinic founders |
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| Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland |
Psychologists, sexuality researchers |
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| Detective, crime, and mystery writers |
Quakers |
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| Diarists |
Rail personalities |
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| Dictionaries and lexicographers, dictionary publishers, patrons |
Reformers of all persuasions, but especially Reformation |
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| Dynasties, royal houses, royal families, caliphates, shogunates, founders |
Religious mystics |
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| Egypt |
Road personalities - designers, manufacturers, drivers |
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| Electrical and electronic engineers, researchers into electricity |
Romania |
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| Enforcers (individuals, agencies, computers) - police, military police, secret police, security chiefs, lawmen, (counter-)intelligence officers, hangmen, executioners, criminologists, magistrates, detectives, prison reformers, forensic pathologists, Nazi |
Romans, Etrurians |
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| Engines, parts, types, processes, designers, fuels |
Romantic novelists (modern) |
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| Entertainers - comics, game hosts, presenters, commentators, newscasters, propagandists, reporters, musicians |
Rugby union and league |
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| Entomologists, insect artists |
Running |
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| Environmentalists, conservationists, ecologists, relevant researchers |
Saudi Arabia |
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| Esoteric and new religions, movements, cults, and their practitioners - theosophy, gnosticism, spiritualism, scientology, Witnesses, millenarianism |
Science fiction and fantasy writers, including short stories |
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| European - Goths, Vandals, Huns, Britons, Visigoths (not Anglo-Saxons), Vikings* |
Scientists, early (18th-c and before) and general, philosophers of science, science advisors, popularisers, historians |
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| European Union and personalities/presidents, bodies, concepts |
Screenplay writers, scriptwriters |
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| European history - general topics, broad locations |
Screenplays, script writers, sources of adaptation, TV composers |
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| Evolutionists, palaeontologists |
Script writers, radio plays, radio composers |
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| Fashion personalities - designers of clothes, accessories, cosmetics, business personalities, models |
Skate sports - rollerskating, ice skating, ice hockey, curling, skateboarding |
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| Film scores |
Snow sports - skiing, bobsledding, lugeing |
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| Finland |
Society (non-academic) personalities - founders of social organizations, public relations/opinion leaders, youth leaders, counsellors, social critics, social workers, advisers, club-owners |
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| Folklorists |
Sociologists, social anthropologists, theorists, historians, philosophers, psychologists, and other social science academics |
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| Furnishing, furnisher designers, furniture |
South Africa |
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| General notions of knowledge, broad academic domains, encyclopedists |
South American history - general topics, broad locations |
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| General properties of the Earth, geophysics, geology, geochemistry, and specialists |
Spain |
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| Geneticists, microbiologists, some biochemists |
Sports topics - general issues, competitions, commentators, records collectors, administrators, journalists |
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| Geographers, topographers, surveyors |
Sri Lanka |
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| Glassware and stained glass, artists |
Stage/scenery/costume design and designers in theatre, ballet |
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| Golf |
Surgeons of all kinds |
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| Greece |
Swimming and diving |
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| Greeks, Athenians, Spartans, Macedonians 57 |
Syria |
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| Hindu personalities |
Telecommunications personalities |
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| Horse racing, jockeys, trainers, breeders, owners, horses, races, harness racing, steeplechasing, hurdling |
Telecommunications personalities - pioneers, founders of companies |
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| Humorists (prose) |
Textile designers, weavers, embroiderers, knitters |
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| Hungary |
The Crusades |
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| Hymn writers |
Town and city planning, planning in general, settlement units (city, etc) |
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| Iceland |
Trade unions, unionists, and labour leaders, arbitration bodies, unrest |
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| Illustrators of children's books |
Travel writers |
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| Individualists - eccentrics, adventurers, (modern) recluses, famous modern hostages, charlatans |
Travellers (in known lands), travel book authors |
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| Indonesia |
Turkey |
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| Industrial design and designers |
Turkey (from 1300) |
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| Instruments, instrument makers, instrument parts, types |
Ukraine |
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| Iran |
United Kingdom |
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| Iraq |
United Nations - bodies, secretaries general, delegates, ambassadors |
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| Islamic notions, sects, dynasties, personalities, locations |
Wales |
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| Israel |
War criminals |
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| Jamaica |
Water personalities - shipowners, divers, shipbuilders, seamen (not navy) |
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| Japan |
Weapons |
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| Jesus and Mary, founders of Christian denominations, sects, movements |
World War 1 events and personalities |
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| Landscape design and gardening, gardens, woods |
Writers of adventure stories thrillers |
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| Lawn tennis, paddle tennis, platform tennis, real tennis |
Writers of historical novels |
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| Lawyers |
Yachting |
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| Librettists, lyricists, musicals songwriters |
Yugoslavia |
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| Literary texts, characters, fictitious locations |
Zoologists, ethologists, marine biologists, animal anatomists, animal physiologists, showmen, cattlemen, big-game hunters, breeders, humanitarians, photographers, artists |
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| Lithuania |
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| Lord Chancellors |
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