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On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

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Eliot Engel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 18
Politician
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U.S. Representative
New York City
New York
Eliot L. Engel
Eliot Lance Engel
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