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Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Unknown
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salary, and locked him up in a palace. Then the wise ones lost
Tripoli and about everything but sleeping room in Europe.
Motto: I told you so. Ambition: To be back on the job.
Recreations: Private entertainments. Address: Harem.
Epitaph: Everybody Worked But Father.

HAMLET, a Dane who had difficulty with an auxiliary verb. Also
founded the foolish questions.

HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar, an opera broker who inflicted himself, high
prices, and buildings upon certain communities.

HANDEL, placed "Handel's Largo" on the music stands. Also wrote
a few other airs.

HARRY. (See Thomas and Richard.)

HARVARD, John, an Englishman who founded a great American
university near the cultured town of Boston, Mass., U. S. A.,
where football players and the sons of American millionaires
eke out an education.

HARVEY, Doctor W., a physician who learned in 1619 that his
patients had blood which circulated. The discovery has since
been of some profit to his successors.

HEINZ, of Pittsburg, Pa. A man who never tried to conceal his
name. Sold American baked beans, catsup, and fifty-five other
varieties to the world.

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