Although he wrote only three novels during his career and spent most of his life in government service, Futabatei Shimei (the pen name for Hasegawa Tatsunosuke) is credited with having written the fir...
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Shimon Peres (born 1923) served as Israel's prime minister from 1984 through 1986 and again in 1995, following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ...
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