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John Quincy Adams
(born July 11, 1767, Braintree [now Quincy], Massachusetts [U.S.]—died February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C., U.S.) eldest son of President John Adams and sixth president of the United States (1825–29). In his prepresidential years he was one of America's greatest diplomats (formulating, among other things, what came to be called the Monroe Doctrine); in his postpresidential years (as U.S. congressman, 1831–48) he conducted a consistent and often dramatic fight against the expansion of slavery. (For a discussion of the history and nature of the presidency, presidency of the United States of America. Cabinet of President John Quincy Adams.)

Thomas Bowdler
(born July 11, 1754, Ashley, near Bath, Somerset, Eng.—died Feb. 24, 1825, Rhydding, near Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales) English doctor of medicine, philanthropist, and man of letters, known for his Family Shakspeare (1818), in which, by expurgation and paraphrase, he aimed to provide an edition of Shakespeare's plays that he felt was suitable for a father to read aloud to his family without fear of offending their susceptibilities or corrupting their minds. Bowdler sought to preserve all Shakespeare's “beauties” without the “blemishes” introduced (he supposed) to please a licentious age. Bowdler also prepared an expurgated edition, published in 1826, of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.


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Giorgio Armani
(1934 - )
Born in Piacenza, Italy, fashion designer Giorgio Armani began as a window dresser in Milan and started his own design house in 1975. In 2003, Armani was the first fashion designer to have an exhibition at London's Royal Academy.