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David Bordwell

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David Bordwell

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David Borgenicht

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David Bornstein

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David Bottoms

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David Boucher

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David Bowie

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David Bowles

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David Boyd

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David Boyle

David Courtney Boyle (born 1958) is a British author and journalist who writes mainly about history and new ideas in economics, money, business, and culture. He lives in Steyning in West Sussex. He conducted an independent review for the Treasury and the Cabinet Office on public demand for choice in public services which reported in 2013. He is co-founder and policy director of Radix, which he characterized in 2017 as a radical centrist think tank. He is also co-director of the mutual think tank New Weather Institute. Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boyle_(author)" target="blanck">David Boyle</a> on Wikipedia

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David B. Posen

David Posen, MD, is a family physician who counsels patients on stress management. He is in demand as a speaker and trainer in stress mastery and work-life balance.

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David B. Pritchard

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David Brackett

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David Braun

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David Braund

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David Brealey

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David Breashears

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David Brin

American scientist and science fiction author

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David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis (16 February 1927- ) David Brion Davis is 'Sterling Professor' of History Emeritus at Yale, Connecticut as well as Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Born in Denver in 1927, the son of journalist, novelist, and screenwriter Clyde Brion Davis (1898-1962) and the artist and writer Martha Wirt Davis (1905-1951), David lived a peripatetic childhood in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington State and attended five high schools in four years. Eighteen and having graduation from Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Haven) in June 1945, David was drafted and trained as a combat infantryman in preparation for a fall 1945 invasion of Japan. However the war ended and, because he had high school German, was assigned to the occupation in Germany for a year and became a member of the army's Security to police civilians. At the time he was deciding he career and in a lengthy letter to his eighty-five year-old grandmother he described his experiences with "the appalling racism that many white American soldiers displayed when they encountered black soldiers in the segregated army". And adamantly, at first, wanting to go into this physics and mathematics, but later deciding to major in history, continuing into post-graduate research, and finally teaching, in college. Indeed he went back to Dartmouth where by 1950 he won his Artium Baccalaureatus (summa cum laude) and was offered a post as instructor in history. He then got into Harvard University and whilst studying for his degree began teaching at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York as assistant professor. He achieve his Artium Magister degree three years later, followed by his Doctor of Philosophy by the end of another three years. <!-- 1956 --> He continued at Cornell in the position of associate professor (1958-63), and within two years as 'Ernest I. White' Professor of History and had gained his Oxford University Masters (1963-69) a total of fourteen years even with a brief time lecturing in India. By the end of the 60's he was at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut as their professor of history and working on yet another Masters of Arts (1969-72) at the end of which he was made 'Farnham' Professor of History (1972-78) and finally 'Sterling' Professor of History in 1978 - he remained, specializing in Slavery in the Western World and America, Antebellum America, and Intellectual history at Yale until 2001. His books include Homicide in American Fiction (1957); The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966); The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975); Slavery and Human Progress (1984); Revolutions: American Equality and Foreign Liberations (1990); In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery (2001), Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (2003), and Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006). He writes frequently for The New York Review of Books.

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David Broadwell

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David Bronstein

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David Brooks

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David Brooks

American journalist, commentator and editor "David Brooks is one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, a writer for The Atlantic, and appears regularly on PBS Newshour. He is the bestselling author of The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, The Social Animal, Bobos in Paradise, and On Paradise Drive." --Penguin Random House

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David Brooks - undifferentiated

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David Browne

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David Brownstein

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David B. Rutledge

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David B Strohmetz

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David Buchla

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David Burnie

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David Burns

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David Burr Gerrard

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David Burstein

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David Buss

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David Butler

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David B. Weaver

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David B. Weems

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David B. Weishampel

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David B. Werner

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David B. Yoffie

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David Byrne

David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish musician permanently residing in the United States, a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, and non-fiction. He has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Byrne" target="blanck">Wikpedia</a>

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David Byrnes

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David Cameron

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David Cameron Gikandi

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David Campiti

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David Cannadine

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David Canter

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David Carey

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David Carli

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David Carpenter

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