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The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

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George W. S. Trow
Age: 63 †
Born: 1943
Born: September 28
Died: 2006
Died: November 24
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George William Swift Trow
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