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  1. 6 days ago · The Singing Sands, p.49. INSPECTOR ALAN GRANT. Inspector Alan Grant was born in the Midlands in England on 4th August, 1894. An Englishman by birth, little is known about his family except that his father was Scottish, and that his grandfather ‘belonged to the Strathspey’.

  2. 3 days ago · John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924.

  3. 14 hours ago · Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe.

  4. 3 days ago · Police - Crime Fighting, Law Enforcement, Reform: When J. Edgar Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924, he laid the groundwork for a strategy that would make the FBI one of the most prestigious police organizations in the world.

  5. 2 days ago · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

  6. 5 days ago · A useful footballer when he was younger, he played in three finals of the long-running charity competition, the JW Hunt Cup. He was its oldest surviving former finalist. Born in Wolverhampton,...

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  8. 4 days ago · Harry S. Truman (born May 8, 1884, Lamar, Missouri, U.S.—died December 26, 1972, Kansas City, Missouri) was the 33rd president of the United States (1945–53), who led his country through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War, vigorously opposing Soviet expansionism in Europe and sending U.S. forces to ...

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