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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Israel
England
Mankind
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Florence
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Athens

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