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  2. Child selling - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Child-selling is the practice of selling children, usually by parents, legal guardians, or subsequent custodians, including adoption agencies, orphanages and Mother and Baby Homes. Where the subsequent relationship with the child is essentially non-exploitative, it is usually the case that purpose of child-selling was to permit adoption .

  3. Maya Angelou - Wikipedia

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    Maya Angelou ( / ˈændʒəloʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [ 1][ 2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning ...

  4. Richard Branson - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for [1] co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. [2] [3] [4] Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of ...

  5. Kalpana Chawla - Wikipedia

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    Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) [ 2] was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. [ 3][ 4] She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator aboard STS-87. [ 5]

  6. Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons - Wikipedia

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    Manning naming dispute, 16 October 2013: "The biographies of living personspolicy applies to all references to living persons throughout Wikipedia, including the titles of articles and pages and all other portions of any page." ^Please note that exceptional claimsrequire exceptional sources.

  7. Child slavery - Wikipedia

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    History. Child slavery refers of the slavery of children below the age of majority. Many children have been sold into slavery in the past for their family to repay debts or crimes or earn some money if the family were short of cash. In the Roman Empire, the children of a slave woman normally became the property of her owner. [ 1]

  8. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - Wikipedia

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    Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam BR ( / ˈəbdʊlkəˈlɑːm / ⓘ; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007. Born and raised in a Muslim family in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, he studied physics and aerospace engineering.

  9. Paul R. Ehrlich - Wikipedia

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    Ehrlich c. 2010. Ehrlich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of William Ehrlich and Ruth Rosenberg.His father was a shirt salesman (unrelated to the German scientist Paul Ehrlich), his mother a Greek and Latin scholar [14] and public school teacher. [6]