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"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck"
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Simon Newcomb
between March 12, 1835 and July 11, 1909. He/she was a famous
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