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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011)

jihadist, civil engineer, businessperson, terrorist

  • King Abdulaziz University, Al-Thager Model School

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Usāmah ibn Lādin, al-mudhakkirāt al-majhūlah
Messages to the world
Osama bin Laden
Usāmah kā paig̲h̲ām Ummat-i Muslimah ke nām
Usāmah ibn Lādin yarwī maʻārik Maʾsadat al-Anṣār al-ʻArab bi-Afgānistān
Jane Jensen
Jane Jensen (born 1963)

computer scientist, game designer

  • Anderson University

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Women political leaders
Dante's equation
Judgment day
Millennium Rising
Kingdom come
Sins of the Fathers
The beast within
La ecuación Dante
In the Land of Milk and Honey
Keto Instant Pot Cookbook
NinjFoodi Cookbook
Air Fryer Cookbook
El Despertar del Milenio
Keto Air Fryer Cookbook
Dante Denklemi
El Despertar del Milenio (Spanish Edition)
ha-Mishṿaʼah shel Danṭeh
Paul Nahin
Paul Nahin (born 1940)

engineer

  • Stanford University, California Institute of Technology

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The logician and the engineer
Oliver Heaviside
Microcosmic Tales
An imaginary tale
Great Science Fiction
The science of radio
Dr. Euler's fabulous formula
Space Mail, Volume II
Time machines
When Least Is Best
Will You Be Alive Ten Years From Now And Numerous Other Curious Questions In Probability
Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers
Chases and Escapes
Digital Dice
Number-crunching
Holy Sci-Fi!
Mrs. Perkins's electric quilt
Inside Interesting Integrals
Time travel
How to Fall Slower Than Gravity
Time Machine Tales
In Pursuit of Zeta-3
Transients for Electrical Engineers
In praise of simple physics
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1980, Featuring *The Humanoid Universe* (Volume C, No. 6)
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute (1899-1960)

flight engineer, engineer, racing automobile driver, aircraft pilot

  • University of Oxford, Dragon School

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The breaking wave
Slide Rule
Pied Piper
The rainbow and the rose
In the wet
An Old Captivity
Ruined city
What Happened to the Corbetts
Great World War II Stories
On The Beach
So Disdained
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 - 1976
A town like Alice ; (and), Pied piper ; (and), The far country ; (and), The chequer board ; (and), No highway
Vinland the good
Lonely Road
Stephen Morris
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Marazan
A town like Alice
Most Secret
Round the Bend
The Mysterious Aviator
Landfall, a channel story
Supreme Storyteller
Pastoral
A Nevil Shute omnibus
Far Country
No Highway
The Wine-Press - a tale of war
The Wheezers And Dodgers The Inside Story Of Clandestine Weapon Development In World War Ii
Trustee from the Toolroom
Le dernier rivage
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two
Three of a kind
Under a Sheltering Sky
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two
GENERAL (A) HISTORY OF MUSIC;
世界就是這樣結束的
Chequer Board - Canada
Beyond Black Stump-Can
The Rainbow and the Rose
Town Like Alice and on the Beach
Lonely Road
Rainbow and Rose
Mysterious Aviator
Pastoral
Rainbow & Rose - Canada
Lonely Road
PIED PIPER.
Rainbow and the Rose
The Chequer Board
Requiem for a Wren. Heron Complete Works of Nevil Shute
Lonely Road. Heron Complete Works of Nevil Shute
Round the Bend
The Rainbow and the Rose
Peguin Readers 4
Le testament ; roman
Lonely Road
So Disdained
Ordeal (a.k.a. What Happened to the Corbetts)
Three of a Kind
Pastoral
Pied Piper
Beyond the Black Stump
Lonely Road
Nevil Shute set (6)...chequer board 1965,far country 1952, most secret 1965, on beach 1960,ordeal 1965,stephen morris 1965
Beyond the Black Stump
Lonely Road
Kumsalda
THE LEGACY.
The Legacy
Lonely Road
Le testament
Three Novels
Lonely Road
Lonely Road
The rainbow and the rose
So Disdained
Round The Bend
What happened to the Corbetts
Legacy [a Town Like Alice]
Lonely Road (Great Pan Books. No. G554.)
BEYOND THE BLACCK STUMP
Patoral Copyright
Lonely Road
What Happened to the Corbetts
The Far Country
Lonely Road - Canada
Lonely Road
The rainbow and the rose [by] Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice / The Far Country / On the Beach
Pied Piper
Omnibus
Pied Pier
Lonely Road
Lonely Road
Ordeal
The chequer board
What Happened to the Corbetts and Pastoral
What Happened to the Corbetts
Pastoral
Rainbow and the Rose
Landfall
Lonely Road
Three of a Kind
What Happened to the Corbetts
Maraazan - Canada
Around the Bend
Ṭayase ha-etmol
The Seafarers
ha-Zaḳen ha-mufla
In the wet
Stades de légende
Finale als voorspel
Lonely road
העזבון
Lonely road
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820)

architect, civil engineer, naturalist

  • Fulneck School

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The Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1799-1820 (Series 1): Volume 3 1-3, From Philadelphia to New Orleans (The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Ser)
The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Series 4): Volume 2 4-2, 1805-1810 (The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Ser)
The Virginia journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795-1798
The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
The papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe ; Edward C. Carter II, editor in chief
The journal of Latrobe
American copper-mines
Latrobe's view of America, 1795-1820
The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Series 4): Volume 1 4-1, 1784-1804 (The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Ser)
Notices of Parkersburg, Virginia, as it is in July, 1860
A private letter to the individual members of Congress on the subject of the public buildings of the United States at Washington
The Architectural Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Series 2): Volume 2 2-2, Parts 1 & 2 (The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Ser)
The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Series 4): Volume 3 4-3, 1811-1820 (The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Ser)
Letter and report from Benjamin H. Latrobe, Surveyor of the Public Buildings at the city of Washington
Anniversary oration, pronounced before the Society of Artists of the United States
A private letter to the individual members of Congress
The architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Opinion on a project for removing the obstructions to a ship navigation to Georgetown, Col
Letter from Mr. B. Henry Latrobe, on repairs in the temporary Senate chamber
Memorial of Benjamin H. Latrobe, late Surveyor of the Public Buildings in the city of Washington, in vindication of his professional skill
Impressions respecting New Orleans
The papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
View of the practicability and means of supplying the city of Philadelphia with wholesome water
Anniversary oration
An answer to the Joint Committee of the Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia, on the subject of a plan for supplying the city with water, &c
The journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1799-1820
The engineering drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Remarks on the address of the Committee of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company to the Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives
The Moravian missions
Characteristic anecdotes and miscellaneous authentic papers, tending to illustrate the character of Frederic II, late king of Prussia
Latrobe's communication
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram (born 1959)

mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, patent inventor, businessperson, artificial intelligence researcher, opinion journalist, merchant, podcaster

  • California Institute of Technology, Eton College

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Idea Makers
Mathematica
The mathematica book
The MATHEMATICA ® Book, Version 3
Mathematica 3.0 standard add-on packages
An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Mathematica
A new kind of science
Cellular automata and complexity
Mathematica reference guide
Cellular automata and complexity
Cellular automata
Mathematica : a system for doing mathematics by computer
Cellular automata
Gerhard Senft
Gerhard Senft (born 1956)

economist, historian, engineer

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Weder Kapitalismus noch Kommunismus
Essenz der Anarchie
Aufbruch in das gelobte Land
Im Vorfeld der Katastrophe
Der Schatten des Einzigen
Konstantin Tsiolkovskii
Konstantin Tsiolkovskii (1857-1935)

flight engineer, mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher, astronomer, scientist, cosmologist, teacher

  • Vyatka men's gymnasium

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Cherty iz moeĭ zhizni
Geniĭ sredi li͡udeĭ
Beyond the planet earth
The will of the universe ; Intellect unknown ; Mind and passions
Reaktivnye letatelʹnye apparaty
Putʹ k zvezdam
Ocherki o vselennoĭ
Selected works
Izbrannye trudy
Selected works
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Na lune
The call of the cosmos
Issledovanie mirovykh prostranstv reaktivnymi priborami
Grezy o zemle i nebe
Raketa v kosmicheskoe prostranstvo
Vne Zemli
Selected works
Trudy dvenadt︠s︡atykh Chteniĭ, posvi︠a︡shchennykh razrabotke nauchnogo nasledii︠a︡ i razvitii︠u︡ ideĭ K.Ė. T︠S︡iolkovskogo, Kaluga, 14-16 sent. 1977 g.
The science fiction of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Promyshlennoe osvoenie kosmosa
Trudy shestykh i sedʹmykh chteniĭ, posvi͡ashchennykh razrabotke nauchnogo nasledii͡a i razvitii͡a ideĭ K.Ė. T͡Siolkovskogo